Well, after the interesting taping at the beginning of the 27th, I was in a complete rush to put together another project to see if it would go the same way - I ran outside, grabbed the foam and the platform, quickly made another platform (in what seemed like record time), and threw everything back outside - in the middle of all of this, my alarm went off (”No time to turn it off now!” I yelled as I continued to fotz with the cameras) I grabbed the camera that was the ground shot, threw it onto a panhead as quickly as I could, beep-beep-beep-beep-beep…, grabbed my good camera, threw it on a panhead, wired everything together (of course, almost tripping a few times) beep-beep-beep… the alarm was un-relenting. Then I checked everything - “the shot would be better if I could get the good camera over here, so…!” I grabbed both of the cameras, furiously disconnecting all of the cables, threw them back together in the opposite positions from where they were, made sure everything was working, then ran inside and finally turned the #$@% alarm off. Because I was working that day, I couldn’t switch tapes in the camera, so I asked my mother (who was there during the day) to switch the tapes “every hour and 20 minutes!” So, I went to work, let my camera do it’s thing, and had her (nicely, I might add… :)) switch the tapes every hour and 20 minutes or so - I also ran a webcam program so I could watch the progress of the day at work, so if the squirrels would try that again, I could be sure that I taped it (of course, I could also check to make sure the tapes were being switched…) The squirrels of the day did dig at the sides of the platform furiously (that’s how they got the foam out of the bag in the morning), but they didn’t do as much as they did in the morning - interesting. I did tape something interesting though - in the beginning, one of the squirrels urine scent marked (or at least that’s what it seemed like it was doing to me) the platform before it ran off. I’m not sure if it did that to mark it as it’s territory or for another reason, but it’s very rare when they’ve done that to anything related to my project, and it shows they seem familiar enough with it to mark it as something they own… and I had proof of it on tape!

 

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