Jiffy Pop Liver, Birds, etc.
You know, winter is coming, and that means quahogging (clamming for all you non Cape Codders). But you can't just venture out onto the sleet-whipped mud flats without the proper gut fuel. Hence the pic above. Have some steak along with a couple of slabs of Pam-splashed liver sealed in a tightly crimped pocket of aluminum foil. (Focus on that foil... Be careful when you pull that over-cooked puppy off the grill. Twenty to thirty minutes of medium heat and a couple of flips will yield scalding steam and liver juices in that little silver bag! Jiffy Pop, eat your heart out.) Yeah, combine that with a nuked coffee mug half filled with lima beans and you're talking the stuff that will put fur on your eyeballs and fear in the hearts of bivalves. (The liver is even better/"more potent" the next day when served refrigerator-cold in a slurry of those same lima beans and "A.1." steak sauce... That's a Mrs. CCA favorite!)
Anyway, back to birds...
Lots of activity over the last few days - the usual suspects of chickadees, titmice, crows, grackles, doves, etc. The cameras are going full bore...
"Neato" shot of a downy, no?
It's interesting to watch how the various birds deal with the NovaBird camera and tripod. (We essentially hid the small Hawk Eye streaming cam on a shepard's crook and wrapped it with green Christmas garland so that isn't so much of an issue.) The woodpeckers are pretty much indifferent to the Nova, whereas the other birds are skittish, and the crows really want nothing to do with it. Obviously, it's going to take time to figure out exactly what makes all beasties comfortable.
Getting late...
See you by the feeders,
CapeCodAlan
Cornell Ornithology Laboratory: Inside Birding
Cornell Ornithology Laboratory: All About Birding
Comments
Mrs. CCA says,"Ugh! That particular meal made me gag as a child and it still does! You can keep the liver and lima beans--I'll stick with grilled steak and peas!"
Posted by: Mrs. CapeCodAlan | October 13, 2009 5:22 AM
I agree with Mrs. CCA. I never cared much for that meal, myself - and that's putting it mildly!
Posted by: Josie | October 13, 2009 11:55 PM