I posted a short Armadillo video last year; here’s another one taken recently during my early morning walks. This Armadillo is surely a different one (located a couple miles away from last years location) …
An Armadillo video
A second bonus of my too early morning walk today, is that I again saw the Armadillo foraging for it’s breakfast – and this time it came very close to me (I stood quite still and apparently became invisible!), and I had my zoom lens camera so was able to take some great video:
Alternatively, here’s a couple of photographs that I also took:
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Distant Summer Lightning
We knew that our new home was nicely located with a view over the wetlands, but we didn’t realize just how good our weather view would be – it turns out that living in (flat) Florida with the nearest trees a few hundred yards away gives us great views of both sunsets (examples: June, February) as well as the regular summer thunder and lightning – but it’s much harder to record lightning than sunsets!
Last night was spectacular; a storm maybe 20 miles west of us struck lightning both cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground for at least an hour; we were too far to hear thunder except occasional deep rumbles, but we had a great view of lightning. This 1/2 minute clip is extracted from only 3 minutes of video I recorded:
Head to YouTube to watch in higher (full screen) resolution.
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