ABCDeology

Dillie’s a lot like most of the other household pets on her block – she’s got four legs, a tail and tongue that will lick a friendly hand. She’s even housebroken, likes treats and to run around in the yard.

The difference is Dillie’s an 180-pound full-grown deer.

The Dewclaw is the tiny fifth claw of a dog’s leg above the other toes, so called, rather romantically, because it brushes the dew from the grass. Dogs almost always have one of these tiny talons on the inside of their front legs and sometimes also on their hind legs.

Beautiful photographs of the Eurasian Kingfisher taken by Charlie Hamilton James; some appearing in National Geographic magazine’s November 2009 issue, the Daily Mail and some from his website.