So, this is the other video that I’ve been trying to finish up, the notorious one mentioned in previous posts. It did not help in the slightest that, before getting the chance to edit together the clips, I continued to add more to them.
But yeah, the discoveries on the property keep right on happening. It’s certainly not boring in any way. Well, at least not for us…
You can see that I played around a little bit more with editing tricks, doing some brightness improvements where needed and a little magnification and slow-mo. Also bear in mind, I trimmed an awful lot out of the clips to try and keep these things from going too long, though I already know it’s a lost cause to the typical social media crowd, where three minutes is sheer agony – luckily, I have no intention of ever targeting that demographic.
Nutria (Myocastor coypus) can have at least two broods a year, occasionally more, and reach sexual maturity quickly, so how this is going to turn out is anyone’s guess. Besides the corn that we distribute, there are also tons of aquatic plants, primarily yellow cow lilies, that are already popping up in numbers, as well as the wooded areas bordering the ponds that are free pickings, so they can likely find plenty of food without ‘encroaching’ on any areas that anyone should give the faintest shit about – not that that factors into the decision of most mooks that concern themselves with ‘invasive species’ and all that, typically the same ones who throw all their trash into the streams throughout the state and can’t dispose of their motor oil properly, much less drive a fuel-efficient vehicle. You’re getting my point, I’m sure…
The red-shouldered hawks have been hunting routinely in the yard and neighboring parcels, so the juveniles have a certain level of risk here as well, especially if they get too blasé about being on land; the hawks can easily prey on ones the size shown here, but those will quickly grow out of the danger range (and how the hawks have not been taking out more of the squirrels, I can’t imagine.)
The hawks are perhaps next on the video list, provided nothing else pops up that demands more immediate attention (which I’m not going to bet on in the slightest.) A pair has been hanging around and seems to be concentrating on that nest, so, maybe? We’ll see, but I’m trying to keep an eye on them. There’s also a faint indication that the wood duck nest box is in use – trying to confirm that as well.
By the way, I mention the ‘Haunted Tree’ in the video, because we have to name certain landmarks and portions of the property to easily communicate where we’re seeing things and such. The tree is not, to my knowledge, bothered by spirits in any way, but it looks like it could be, which you get a hint of in the video, and I’ll include some better illustrations of this later.
Anyway, a bit more off my plate for the time being. Whew.