Crazy and strange things I’ve done to get good observations. Or just any at all. Stand on my tiptoes on top of 2in wide counter near my tv to catch a close up pic of a moth. Turn the stove off in the middle of cooking and run outside in bare feet to try and catch a pic of the Javelinas walking…

Lol pay no attention to them. I’m certain I was in many a similar awkward situation like this, eg. once the security guard was just about to let me enter by residential area when I did a U-turn to take a picture of a moth…I’m sure she was quite perplexed.

Many times I will wade through high grass and poison ivy just to get one new species of a plant. Probably the craziest thing I ever did was go under my house deck with centipedes, millipedes, slugs, spiders, and other disgusting, nauseating arthropods, JUST to get one photo of a plant that I have n…

Lol. Yup. [image] yayemaster: other disgusting, nauseating arthropods :-O. You’ve insulted the arthropods! ;-P. Just kidding. [image] yayemaster: I did rescue a trapped bird and turned it into an observation when it was trapped in wire. I set it free and untangled it. It was crying and …

Hah! I wade through disgusting, nauseating plants to get pictures of arthropods! Remember, arthropod hunters: it is not the nettle your observation is on that is a threat, but the nettle next to it!

Lol, quite true. Eat them so there’s no threat, ;-P

Crazy (or strange) things you’ll do for observations Let my camera get water-damaged while hunting rattlesnakes in the rain. Found one, though. Investigate an anthill for a whole hour looking for an ant-mimic Salticid that I lost. I didn’t even find it. Forget about an important meeting, becaus…

[image] calebcam: Hold up people walking a trail because I find something interesting and zone in on it. Then you have to stammer an apology and watch them mutter to themselves about ‘weird dudes’. I hear a lot of, “Mommy…what is that lady doing?” as I unfold from or contort into a bizarre tr…

Lol! Haven’t got that one yet. ;-)

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