Nemisis species
Everyone has that one species of mammal that we try our absolute hardest to photograph and brag to our friends about but always never seem to get it right. It may be the time of year, our luck, karma, juju for the superstition among us but there is always a way that that particular species will slip from our hands. For example I have been to northern Minnesota, granted at the wrong time, this March just before a person 4 days earlier had seen a Canada lynx. We had spent considerably more hours on the Gunflint trail using all the tricks and all the prayers we could muster but we could only manage a red squirrel. It was so bad we had to label it a birding trip so we would not come back home defeated. This is my newest and most persistent nemesis species currently. A former foe of mine was the Southern Giant Pouched Rat for not ever being able to stay still enough for me to photograph and when I did get a photo the phone that it was on broke. So I ask you members of the mammal watching community what is your current, or formal, nemesis species.
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