Meteorologists think that summer begins when average daily temperatures reach +15 C. Though if the workers of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve take this point of view on trust, there may be no summer at all on Kamchatka. That’s why they believe that summer begins with the moment when you are bitten by mosquitoes for the first time…

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A newly-made couple of foxes, Villain and Villainess (that’s how the workers of the nature reserve call them), finally became parents. All of their 9 fox cubs are chubby and well groomed. Villain personally licks their tummies! What a wonderful daddy!

As for Villainess, she also proved herself as an attentive mother. While feeding, she doesn’t lie but stands so that more kids could suck her milk, smacking in a hilarious way.

Father’s tail – what can be better to play with?

A fox returns from a successful hunt.

A self-forgetful song of a lanceolated warbler.

The brook of meteorologists.

The view of Kronotsky Volcano from the estuary of the Listvennichny River.

The flowers of cloudberries.

The June morning frost on the bank of Lake Kronotsky.

This fox’s name is Alice. She caught an Arctic ground squirrel and carries it to the burrow. Her cubs have just started to peek out of it. Unfortunately, it’s yet impossible for the workers of the nature reserve to find out how many of them are there, because every time they approach the burrow, the male fox (their father) begins to cry hysterically and demands them to get out immediately.

A bear rubs against a birch in order to leave its own individual smell on it.

Yusha leads her teens.

Emche at the watering.

The flower of the Arctic raspberry.

The Old World Swallowtail.

The blossoming dwarf willow.

The family of the Steller’s Sea Eagle.

A mink.

This animal serves as an alarm clock for the workers of the reserve. Every day, exactly at 3-50 a.m., it starts making noise and in this way wakes everybody up.

Villain, an old poacher. One day he caught a duck, but when having seen the onlooker with a camera, quickly hid it in the bushes. After that, he walked past the photographer three times as if saying “You may photograph me if you want, I’m innocent” and didn’t touch the game until was left alone.

Indeed, as sly as a fox.

As for simple-minded Alice, she was caught red-handed.

The mouth full of nestlings…

And this one managed to catch a hunchback salmon.

The bank of the estuary is like a road with three lanes, separate for each kind of animal.

Though there are a lot of fish in the water, fishing doesn’t bear much fruit. Only super-professionals, able to dive and catch weakened or dead fish at depth, succeed. The others have to wait until the water level begins to fall and fish becomes more accessible.

This bear is not to be taken lightly.

Serious guys.

This tiny flower of the wintergreen is no more than 1 cm in diameter. Now you can imagine the size of the tiny creature looking at you from the picture. Mosquitoes next to it seem giants. While the photographer was crawling around the flower, the creature was watching him and probably thinking of possible consequences of this unexpected meeting.

Anyway, this tiny bug brought the photographer more joy than the whole crowd of bears…

via shpilenok