Well, mostly anyway, there were a few clouds in the sky.
I got the dirt bike out and then let the chickens out into the yard to feed, or whatever they do.
Trailhead
The rains loosen up the forest soil so it’s easier to dig and do repairs and stuff. So, up into the hills I rode to the trail where I was working and parked here at the trailhead.
I hiked out the trail where I wanted to work and hopped over this log thinking it’d make a good break spot as it had a nice place to sit.
Switchback repair
I wanted to do some repairs on this switchback in the trail to make it easier to get around, so I worked on it and got things smoothed out.
This was the finished turn in the trail, nice and smooth now and easy to get around while working your way up the trail.
Break spot
Then I went back to that log across the trail I spotted earlier and had a nice break and sat around some just enjoying the nice day in the forest.
This was my view from that spot.
I worked on the trail for about another hour and then worked my way back down the trail going by the area I cut the log out the other day.
Headed home
I hopped back on the dirt bike and rode on down this road headed home the long way.
The rains really green up the big ferns.
I made it home and a nap was in order so that’s what I did.
Game cam
The game cam I had on the rat feeding station died last night, likely because it got wet somehow from the rains. I was able to see that the plastic I put on the avocado tree kept the rats from going up in the tree, but the cam died before day break so I don’t know how the squirrels made out.
I moved this other cam over to the spot and set it up. This camera is hooked to my computer. It works fairly well, but it has a drawback I don’t like much.
If you look closely you can see the IR LEDs are glowing red, which the critters can see in the dark and it tends to scare them off or make them more cautious. This unit isn’t water proof so it needs protection.
New rat pellets
My brother Tom went to town and was able to get me some more rat bait. He didn’t get the green blocks this time but got green pellets instead. I’ll have to test the pellet’s to see what the rats think of them.
I loaded up this rat feeding station with the pellets and added a few oat seeds from the chicken feed too as they are used to eating that from the chicken pen.
Nice day on the trail.
Good luck with the rat bait.
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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.
Nice day on the trail.
Good luck with the rat bait.