Syracuse.com - The Post-Standard's 5th annual Wildlife Photo Contest winners announced

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These reader-submitted photos once again illustrate Upstate New York’s diverse and beautiful wildlife. A cute trio of young red fox kits clinging together near their den, a spectacular evening shot of a small flock of black ducks about to land and a female common merganser duck and her eight ducklings were the top entries in The Post-Standard’s Fifth Annual Wildlife Photo Contest.These reader-submitted photos once again illustrate Upstate New York’s diverse and beautiful wildlife.This year’s top choice was the red fox kits, taken by Bob Havener, of Sherrill, in woods near Oneida.“I’ve been watching this den for a couple of years,” he said. “Initially, only two of the foxes came out. Then a third appeared and squeezed between them. That’s when I took the shot.”Finishing second was the photograph of black ducks about to land on a pond in Cayuga County.“It was just one of those lucky evening shots,” said the photographer, Tony Carapella, of Baldwinsville.The third-place finisher was Lynn Cleveland’s photograph of a female merganser duck and her eight ducklings. The Frankfort Center resident took the photo while fishing on the Erie Canal near Herkimer.All three photographers will get their pick of the nearly two dozen outdoors-related books on my desk. Congratulations to all the other photographers who made the final cut for this year’s display.

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