A fruit only in the sense that shellfish are sometimes described as "fruits of the sea", this freshwater mussel was pulled from the pond by a raccoon. You know how raccoons feel around in the mud for crayfish...well, one put his paw into an open mussel shell, and the mussel closed up on it. The poor raccoon was limping around for about an hour with the mussel stuck on his front paw. Finally, he managed to pry it off, opened it, and ate it.
The pond contains some fairly large crayfish, which we see only when they are being eaten by herons, raccoons, and mink. There are lots of fish too, as the pond was a long time ago stocked with trout. The pond is no longer used for fishing, but provides food for a number of fish-eating birds, such as great blue heron, green heron, kingfisher, osprey, Caspian tern, hooded merganser, common merganser, and even the occasional loon.
