Saturday, July 17, 2010

Red Light, Green Light, Go!

So I took Freya out last night....first let me include this preamble. I am heretofore adding news and notes about the pond here because it is a pond, and there will be times Conner is in it. It only makes sense to put pond news on a Duck blog, right? Right.

Now, where was I, oh yes, taking Freya out. Here I am with Freya off doing her Freya thing while I walk around with this nifty little head lamp on my head. I use it to startle unsuspecting critters into frozen statues because I like to see what nocturnal beasts roam my backyard. It really is fun so stop judging me.

So I went to the pond and conducted a little experiment. I set the lamp to the Red light setting, because it is much dimmer and the range of focus is much smaller. Easier for perusing a natural habitat in the most covert of ways without actually using night vision. With lamp set to red I creep barefoot -- for stealth -- over to the pond to see if I could catch any frog activities. Lo and behold the Red light worked! Experiment was a success! The frogs barely noticed I was there. I say barely because some brown 7 month old four-legged beast was making an awful lot of racket. Still, here is some of what I saw.

Now, before you all jump to conclusions and say, Jeremy, that light is hardly red. I want to say, I know. What I did was set my camera up to shoot, then quickly hit them with a douse of petrifying light. Then I went back to covert ops mode.

This is one of my new friends in the pond. I think he totals number 11 frog now.

I admit, the images are on the darker side, but what do you expect, it was 10:00 at night and I was ninja shooting photos here.


Here is a distance shot, getting my feel for the land.



Here is one on zoom to be safe.



This photo was not on zoom, I was actually this close. And for all you out there wondering, yes I did pet the frog, and no I don't have a wart. And for those weirdos of you wondering if it is a prince, or princess. I don't know, I didn't kiss it, I'm not some kind of creeper.

6 comments:

  1. Coming over to say hello from the Saturday Pet Blog Hop...

    I can't wait to read more about your adventures with these ducks. I love ducks! And I especially love baby ducks, anytime I see one, I immediately stop what I'm doing just to watch!

    Lucy's Human
    http://lucyshuman.blogspot.com

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  2. Thanks for stopping by Marianne!

    And thanks to you too Feral, for always dropping by to look at my tom foolery! Now I'm off to visit Marrianne's blog!

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  3. Very cool. Saw you on the Saturday Blog Hop!

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  4. Well, if you don't kiss the frog, you'll never know! :)

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  5. I kiss frogs quite often....no harm done (yet)! Enjoying your ducks and other animals as well as the nature shots you share.

    -Carrie

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