Mudbug Revenge, More Bird Video, etc.
Don't mean to gross you out on this New Years Eve/Day, but thought I'd intro with my poor butchered thumb...
Remember from last time when the greatest Christmas present of all time (crawfish) was announced? Well, it didn't take long for this old Cajun junkie to tear into them. And tear I did. Unfortunately, crayfish are spiny little buggers - what started with a couple of small punctures ended with a goodly slice o' thumb... all done in the peppy exhilaration of salty flavoring. (I have a great photo of the blood streaming down the thumb, but I figured that would be a bit much.) But who cares?!? We got us some mudbugs, and 'that what counts'. Love you Mrs. CCA for the best Christmas present ever!
Now about them birds... What follows is fairly self explanatory - robins, blue jays, robins again, a magnificent red-bellied woodpecker, still another robin, and of course, Don the squirrel. If there's a lesson to be taken away here, it's the importance of (unfrozen) water.
If you really want to have birds grace your yard, there's got to be a consistent source of potable water nearby.
And then there's our "Stupid New Years Hobby" pic involving our fave night-time pastime - "Backyard Night Fishing"!
Do you see that slight light splotch inside the white ellipse? Well, that my friends is a rabbit. That may not sound like much to you, but to the wife and me it's a blast... It's just like the days of my childhood when I'd go fishing with bottom-buck Zebco rod, a bobber, and Lord only knows what for bait... Oh the excitement of spying a bit of bobber movement out of the corner of the eye... Same feeling with movement on the cam.
Gotta run... Almost midnight... Happy New Year!
See you by the feeders in 2010,
CapeCodAlan
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