This morning when I went out to take care of the chickens I was surprised to see four new chicks that had just hatched out. I’m hoping the hen will hatch out some of the eggs that are still left in the nest in the next couple of days as these four were a bit early. They usually take about 21 days to hatch out the eggs once they start sitting on the eggs.
These three little guys were figuring out how to get over that board.
Moved the cam
I decided to move my cam into their pen to see what kind of pictures I might get of them playing around in the pen. I got it all set up and plugged into power and my computer.
Headed up into the forest
A bit later in the day I rode the dirt bike up into the forest to do some trail work. I wanted to explore the possibility of putting the trail on the other side of the ridge as it might be a better way then the way I already had planned on the old game trail. If I don’t have a look before I start, I wouldn’t be sure I put the trail in the right spot, so I had to have a look see.
Exploring
I parked the dirt bike near here and started my journey into the forest looking for old animal trails around this side.
I had to hunt around for any sign of old animal trails. There were some but they weren’t as good as the one I was planning to use on the other side of the ridge.
Not much of a trail
This is a spot where the trail I was following petered out. I picked it up again on the other side of this brush but it wasn’t much of a trail.
Once I got around the ridge top I ran into the old trail on the other side that I think I’ll stick with. I walked on back on this trail.
Nice to have a chair here
I had a chair waiting at the end of the trail where I sat for a good rest and to enjoy the day.
Headed for home
After a good rest I hopped on the dirt bike and took the long way home, just because I could.
Rats gone
When I got home I checked on the new peeps that seemed to be doing well. Since I drove that rat out and dug up it’s tunnels it hasn’t been back and I haven’t lost any more chicks. I have a total of six chicks now with more to come, I hope.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Good chair placement.