The Daily Bucket is a place where we post and exchange our observations about what is happening in the natural world in our neighborhood. Bugs, buds, birds - each note is a record that we can refer to in the future as we try to understand the patterns that are quietly unwinding around us.
Friday April 20, 2012.
This is the video version of my diary from last Friday. It's also about me figuring out how to upload and embed video. Thanks so much to Belinda at Cranky Users for writing up the great how-tos and why. My apologies for the shaky cam on a couple of these but I will say my camera work is better than the shaky cam used in the action scenes in Hunger Games - you know those scenes where something finally happened but you don't know what cause the camera was jumping around so much.
This first is my favorite video from 2010. I went out to hang up laundry and saw the pine snake climbing up the tree (one end of clothesline) and starting around it. It was moving very slowly so I had time to run inside for camera and take a couple shots and then switch to video mode for the rest. The snake is about 4 feet long. There is a hole on the other side that it is sliding into.
The biggest pine snake for the yard is about 5 feet. What an amazing snake that was, and I almost stepped on it as it lay across my trail. The year before I did step on one going out the door - a baby about 5 inches long. No idea why it was up there on deck. Anyways - I now look very carefully when going out into yard.
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Last week I posted a snapshot of 2 green anoles all pumped up and ready to fight. Well, here is the fight.
I really enjoyed watching this white caterpillar moving thru the leaf litter. No idea why it stops and looks up, unless it's looking at me. It sounds like my camera makes noise too, don't know why it does that either. And on my old iBook the video is not very smooth altho it was fine on camera.
Here I sat the camera on railing and let it shoot the woods while I capture bird song. There was a crow that circled around but I doubt you can tell since it's not in surround sound or even stereo.
Lastly, almost 3 minutes of nothing but my goldfish tub and the goldfish swimming around in the sun. Really I was filming to capture the bird songs and not so much the fish .
So that's it for me today. Don't want to overload with too many videos. It's OK if you don't look at them all too. That goldfish is as boring as goldfish really are. Beautiful day again here in Tallahassee, mid-70s, sunny and doing nicely with the inch of rain from the other day. Hey, I just heard a hawk outside, sounds like a red-shouldered. How about you? Any good snake tales to tell?