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Today's visiting critter
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My wife spotted this 4 1/2 foot Bull Snake cruising by our front porch. While we watched it came up on the porch and climbed up an inside corner of the brick portion of the house. It wedged itself between the rain gutter down spout and the brick wall (5 inch gap) and climbed up to the 10 ft + level to investigate a bird nest we allowed near the top of the down spout. He ate an egg and dropped one on the sidewalk (almost a baby bird) while the nervous wanna be parents flutter around helplessly.
Not the largest example of this species but any snake over 4 ft that ignores humans with cameras and climbs up the side of the house is worth noting.
Pat
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Re: Today's visiting critter
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06/26/07 08:15 AM
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Eddie, don't look! 
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Re: Today's visiting critter
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06/26/07 10:59 AM
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That is some strange gutter connection shown in your picture Pat!  And two snakes??
Egon 
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Re: Today's visiting critter
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06/26/07 02:11 PM
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Egon, You need to cut back on your Scotch or Irish "medication" till you can focus both eyes on the same thing at the same time.
Pat
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Re: Today's visiting critter
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06/26/07 05:45 PM
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Pat, even medicinal portions of " Scotch/Irish " are on the no list prescribed by the friendly Doctor! 
Upon resting my myopic floater clouded vision upon the photo again I was able to detect several pictures cunningly joined together.
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Re: Today's visiting critter
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06/27/07 07:06 AM
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Egon, Don't detect too many joined pictures... there were only two. I have been using and recommending Irfanview, a free picture manipulation software available at www.irfanview.com that is easy to use and does most of the things you need to do to pictures...enlarge, shrink, rotate, adjust contrast, color, gamma, and so forth including joining pictures together as a panorama.
The panorama feature is handy as it lets you make multiple pix into one picture vertically or horizontally and then you can post that one multi-picture. You can join a series of pictures into a collection of horizontal side by side pictures and then join those groupings vertically for an x-y matrix of photos, like a proof sheet.
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Re: Today's visiting critter
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06/27/07 08:28 AM
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Ah, the truth is revealed; the photo was manipulated. So, the snake was actually, what, 4 INCHES long instead of 4 feet? Yes, this might explain a lot of your posts, Pat. 
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Re: Today's visiting critter
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06/27/07 10:30 AM
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Jazz, Credit where credit is due! You have no idea how hard it was to cut all those brick scraps down to get materials to build the phony wall. Not to mention, the difficulty of painting the little baby garter snake to look bullish. Making that little bird nest wasn't easy either but the real challenge was making the realistic looking gutter material out of freezer wrap. My wife sprinkled on the ersatz droppings. I thought it was a nice realistic looking touch. All that work and you see right through it. Darn!
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Re: Today's visiting critter
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06/27/07 04:14 PM
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Actually, I had more in mind the HO scale house you constructed and foisted off on us as your homestead. Some people. 
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Re: Today's visiting critter
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06/28/07 09:43 AM
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Fooled ya, Jazz baby. It is more or less "N" scale. One of the most difficult things I had to do was the N scale compact fluorescents. Talk about eye strain and tedious work. I had to buy a better binocular microscope with an expensive diffuse lighting attachment for some of the detail stuff. If only I knew anything about computers I would have just done the whole thing in digital virtual reality.
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Re: Today's visiting critter
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07/02/07 04:43 AM
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Yup,there would be a sign on the lawn...House For Sale...after seeing those. 
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