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Friday, January 29, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Windmill (exposed), Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM, January 28, 2010
Windmill (exposed), Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM, January 28, 2010

Messing with my new camera yesterday morning whilst trying to get the hang of this new-to-me dSLR business, I vastly overexposed a few shots. Here's one. I like it.

Night camp

Site 16 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

Crayfish Chimney

Late one afternoon I sat upon my camera case beside the path where it wound through the darkest part of the woods, down near the pond, and watched a crayfish building his "chimney," the land entrance to his underwater tunnel. He had just started to work above the ground when I first arrived. He came up through the moist black earth, carrying a ball of it between his two enormous fighting claws. Using the claws as hands, he spread the soil around the hole to form the base of the chimney. He then backed down the hole and after several minutes came up with another armful.

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