It’s now been sixteen years since the first post right here on the ol’ Walkabout Blogoblob, and that means it’s time for the annual podcast! [This is unfortunately accurate, for the past few years at least, but I’m intending to change that at least a little.] So let’s get right into it, shall we?
Walkabout podcast – 16 Years
I’m running late, partially due to re-recording this, partially due to Audacity being very balky, but mostly due to being busy with other things, but this did make it up today, anyway. Meanwhile, some illustrations of content within.
This shows those fucking rocks, bearing in mind of course that the water level had been at least a half-meter higher than this. The tree in there is the one with the nest, while the two big rocks in lower center were the culprits, that first gap causing the stumble but the rock on the right pitching me over. How could I have missed these?
Pretty damn easily, as we see when the water lever was almost as high as it was that fateful day. Seen from shore, the second rock is just barely breaking the surface, with a faint darkness in front of it showing the gulf between them, though the water had actually been at least 10cm deeper than this because that second rock was completely under the surface. You can compare the foreground rock on the shore, and the stump, between the two pics, knowing the perspective is roughly 90° different between images.
Besides, I’d waded a lot further out into this same lake before, quite successfully I might add (notice how you can’t even make out the tripod feet in the illustrative photo there,) and figured I knew how few pitfalls were under the surface. So much for previous experience.
Enough of that. How about some pics from yesterday of the red-shouldered hawk that owns the front yard?
I’m almost tempted to move this spinner to give whatever her prey is a fighting chance, because she’s not even two meters off the lawn where she’s hunting here. She got a little bit further later that same day.
The greenhouse is on the same concrete pad as this basketball backdrop, and she uses that too. She was not quite ten meters from me as I leaned out the front door to get this image, well aware that I was there and just not concerned about it.
I approve of the light angle, at least. But yeah, there’s not much of a challenge here, is there? Though I’ll be after video, very soon.
Anyway, have a great new year, and once again, thanks for coming by for the sweet sixteen! Now I just gotta get 27 more posts in for the 3000th…
I heard that Al d. Let’s see if you can get wet again in Washington nc