After the success of the bread-and-butter taping of the 30th, I decided to put another project together. This time, with all of the fanciness and frills and, well, effort, that gets put into a normal project. And this time with a much better camera (2 actually) - and a microphone placed near the mat - I don’t get grackles that often, so when they come, I want to record it as well as I can. Well, they did come, and here you have the second grackle day of 2004! One specific one kept making an appearance with a small bit of guano on it’s tail - thusly it was dubbed “Whitetail the Grackle”… NOTE: This is a COMPLETE DAY FEED - it’s a long file, 17 minutes long.
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I did a test run during the morning of May 30, 2004 just to see if anything would come. I had an old project sitting around, so I stuck it (kind of) in the ground and put some food on top of it. See, the plan was to put out a completely made project and do everything to set it up, all cameras and etc., but I was tired as hell. So I decided if I was going to do anything I might as well do well, something… So I put out the sample project, and that was good enough for me at the time. On my ’sample’ project, grackles (which are a rarity around here) kept coming to the mat and pecking at the holes that were already in the old project - enough so I got tired of them looking for things that didn’t exist (there wasn’t that much food on the platform, just enough to test what’s around), so I put a very quick project together and stuck some peanuts on top of it…