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    I wish I could include the sounds this little fawn was making while nursing :)
    White-tailed Fawn nursing.
 This was amazing.  It was a challenge to manually focus the camera through the jungle like timber without moving very much and scaring the doe away.
    When I saw this in the Iowa river I wanted to run for my life!  
 I believe it's actually a turtle, a soft shell turtle to be more exact.  You can't tell from the image but this thing was massive!

"These turtles are very unique.  Their shells, which can be up to 2 feet in length, are soft and flexible to help them easily hide under sandy bottoms of lakes and streams.  Their long nose is sometime referred to as a bottle-nose.  They keep their snouts close to the water surface in order to breathe. Soft shells are aggressive."