I haven’t had any rat problems since I started using rodent bait on them. But I haven’t checked on them for some time now so I decided to set up the cam on the bait station and see if anything was coming by.
I put the cam in this box as it’s not water proof. It’s hooked to my computer and records when there is motion.
I thought I could get that all set up in a short time……….But.
The software needed an upgrade and then it asked for a password that it shouldn’t have so it took some more time to solve that. So after a couple of hours, it’s running and doing it’s thing.
New spring water output measured
I took a gallon paint can up to the new spring and measured it’s output, not that it really mattered as this is just a get a drink a water spring for me and the animals and the birds.
It took 45 sec. to fill so that’s about a gallon and a half a minute, if my math is correct.
Clean up
The road by the new spring was full of dirt from all my digging and the dozer was near by so I cleaned up the road by the spring.
That pretty much tidies up everything, so I’m done with this job and on to the next one.
The next spring
I rode on up the hill to my next spring project to check it out. This one will be real easy to tap as it’s just a small hole coming out of the hillside and only needs a little digging out and not near as many rocks as the last one. I was checking it out to see what I needed to bring up the hill to tap it.
This is the output from that spring. Not a lot of water, but enough for a good drink.
The weird plant
I tried to ride up this trail to go check out the weird plant to see what state it was in, but these downed trees stopped me right at the head of the trail, so that ended that.
Plant correctly identified
Nina, in comments, correctly identified this plant as this.
She said:
According to iNaturalist the weird plants are Leafless Wintergreen Parole aphylla
I filled the radiator back up with fluid, then started the process of tidying up these wires that are for the electric fans. I needed to get to them when my van was over heating on the way home and had a hard time getting to a fuse that was under them, so the plan is to tidy them up and make the fuse easier to get to, which I still need to do.
Will the “get a drink of water” spring have a catch basin for the wildlife? I do believe I could tap a spring now, if I had to. You’re a good teacher Bob.
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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.
Glad that plant is ID’d! Thanks to Nina. And what richness in water you have. sigh.
That’s what I was thinking … a basin of some sort for the critters to drink. If I ever need a spring tapped, I’m calling you!!
Will the “get a drink of water” spring have a catch basin for the wildlife? I do believe I could tap a spring now, if I had to. You’re a good teacher Bob.