June 2008 12 of 12 - Critter Cam

Greetings from Hackettstown New Jersey. It is a rather busy day for me. I started at 5:00 am and I didn't leave work until almost 11:00 pm. Friday wasn't much better so that's why I'm late getting this in. This month's theme is creatures and critters of all sort.

4:45 am

First critter... me.

5:22 am

Okay, no animals here. It just looked cool. I love fog layers.

5:46 am

A little light breakfast browsing.

7:53 am

A groundhog otherwise known a a woodchuck... and no, they can't chuck wood.

8:20 am

A lone ant crawling on an oak.

8:29 am

A Red Wing Blackbird. They love sitting on cattails along ponds and marshes. This one found some poison ivy to perch on.

8:41 am

One cool frog.

8:45 am

Red Tail hawk riding the thermals.

3:41 pm

We have these bluebird boxes set throughout the course. They're mainly in or near our "naturalized" areas.

3:47 pm

I guess this dragonfly got away from the frog.

6:05 pm

I shot this right outside the kitchen door. They're waiting for someone to come out and feed them. The kitchen and wait staff bring out stale bread and feed them and the fish as well. These are actually this years brood. Mama is the one standing on the rock.

9:23 pm

Talk about caught in the headlights. I found a few deer hanging out in one of our naturalized areas while spraying my greens. This one just stayed laying down while I snapped off about half a dozen shots using my Speedlight. I saw four others later together including a fawn, but they were too far away and my shots didn't come out.








Bonus Picture
This I shot this today and even though it doesn't fit the theme, I thought it was worth putting in.