Don the Squirrel Leaps for Suet Off NovaBird Camera
In the last post, I mentioned that one of the photographic challenges that day was an unsteady remote camera (the green box in the shot above) made all the more unsteady by the squirrel standing on said camera. (For sake of brevity, let's just call that squirrel "Don". Note his brethren in the background no doubt cheering him on.)
Anyway, Don cleverly accessed the camera via the board that I clamped to the deck railing and was prepping to jump. What that image can't show are the "Ed Norton-esque" series of gesticulations Don used to calibrate the "springiness" of the board/camera rig. (You could almost hear, "Hey Ralphie Boy, I'm going for the rendered fat... It sure beats lunch in the sewers!")
I'm not particularly proud of the next pic... This is what the tail section of a squirrel looks like as it hurdles itself towards a feeder.
Moving right along... Finally we have a nice close up of Don, all hunkered down in the feeder and dining on "Pork and Seed Pâte".
Naturally, once this series of pictures was complete, I suggested that Don retreat back to his own feeder and he waddlingly complied... Still, someone should sell tickets.
See you by the feeders,
CapeCodAlan
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