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… Sitting there, waiting for something to happen (and tired as #@$%, remember) I said “Man, I wish there was a grackle on the project.” 2 seconds after I said that, I had my first “official” grackle of the year! (Official as “on tape” - not counting the grackles earlier in the morning that I didn’t tape.) NOTE: This is a COMPLETE DAY FEED - it’s a long file, 17 minutes long.

 

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