I'm working on making friends with a precocious chipmunk, but my Blue Jay Buddy is having none of it. I find Chipmunks a little harder to relate to than Gray and Red Squirrels and I'm not sure why this one has such a fear of the call of the Blue Jay. This time of year in the mountains they are busy storing away as much food as they can.
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Full Harvest Moon of 9/24/18 gave me a chance to test out the new Spotting scope to digiscope the Moon with my Droid Trubo 2 SmartPhone. With your Smart Phone, free software and a low-cost spotting scope like the WOSPORTS 15x45-60 available at Amazon https://amzn.to/2MZoO7F and provided for me to test you can get pretty remarkable images and video for $53. I could have done much better with a heavy tripod - I was using one of my lightweight ones and the jiggling you see sometimes is actually caused by the pretty stiff wind that was blowing last night.
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An affordable Spotting Scope and your SmartPhone are all you need to photograph and film your Backyard birds and animals really close up without spending much money. These are the outtakes from my test of the WOSPORTS 15x45-60 available at Amazon https://amzn.to/2MZoO7F and provided for me to test. All opinions are my own - the full review is at: https://youtu.be/24neEWq--fw
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An affordable Spotting Scope and your Phone that's all you need to photograph and film your Backyard birds and animals really close up without spending much money. This detailed review with tons of examples using the Wosports Spotting Scope (15-45X60 Waterproof Monocular Telescope Bird Watching Outdoor Viewing with Tripod and Digiscoping Adapter) available at Amazon https://amzn.to/2MZoO7F will show you how to get started for less than 60 Dollars. Your Smart Phone, free camera software (discussed in review), and the Wosports Spotting scope will get you started on the basics. I'll follow up with more digiscoping video information in the future.
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Wild Animals have personal space boundaries with each other and humans. The concept is easily demonstrated by these four wild Backyard squirrels, two red squirrels in North Carolina and two Gray Squirrels in Florida - All habituated to me, but each with their unique personalities and reactions. It is important to be aware of personal space with all animals if you want to get along and observe them and generally enjoy Nature more. Personal space violations trigger alert reactions and ultimately fight or flight responses in animals. Violate their space at your peril, respect it and you will be surprised at how your relationships with animals will improve. Especially regarding squirrels unless you raised them from kittens and know them intimately never try to take the initiative to touch or hold them no matter how friendly they may seem, you are now in their intimate space reserved for fellow wild squirrels, their reaction time is so much faster than you can imagine and a simple nip on your finger by them as a warning will result in a mess of a finger. On the other hand, fed and overly spoiled squirrels and most other wild animals such as raccoons and bears will eventually readily invade your own personal space and you'll have an issue of discipline or worse.
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Simply Stunning - a true virtuoso Chipmunk performance! Perfect staging, posture and positioning of head, hands and tail - the performance starts out slow and builds to a dramatic conclusion. If you have listened to other Chipmunk fall performances you will note the subtle variation in this performance, much more song and bird-like than the classic chipping call. Listen carefully at the beginning and you'll hear a competitor start to compete and then give up - there is no competition! A recent performance by another Chipmunk:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZGS5...
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Blue Jay versus Chipmunk - after much back and forth a treaty for peaceful coexistence on the feeding platform has been reached between these two intelligent creatures. The Chipmunk and Blue Jay will now share and eat seeds at the same time, but the Chipmunk must never turn its back on the Blue Jay - Unfortunately for us that means a lot of butt shots of the Chipmunk.
Some history:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnFme... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW3EH...
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Filmed my first Yellow Throated Warbler in the Great Smoky Mountains around 4K feet. A small group of them no doubt passing through as I never see these birds up here on a regular basis. Truly one of the most stunning Warblers they are extremely difficult to film and get in focus as the flit through the tree branches. I left some unedited footage so you can get the idea of how hard they are to track.
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Did you know Opossums have the most teeth of any mammal - 50 teeth - this is what they look like! They are omnivorous, but cameras usually aren't on the menu. Mother Raccoon and her three kittens also can't resist checking it out the camera, but not eating it - they have standards.
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