Finding "Big Foot"!

  Rumors of unusual critters abound.  From the elusive Big Foot to the "overseen" Chupacabra", there always seems to be some mystical critter just lurking in the mist of the deep forested areas.  Throw in a bayou and a bit of fog and things get downright eerie!  There is just no telling what might be watching your every move!  But...even though there are tons of "true" photographs filling every space of the internet, none are ever clear enough to positively identify said critter.  Since I photograph a lot of critters here on the Bayou, I have often thought about those overly blurry pictures.  It sure makes it convenient to have a "documented" photograph of something that cannot be documented!  Anyway, I sort of did my own version of this yesterday.  

  I had gone down to the pier to check the crab traps for soft shell crabs when this all started.  On my way back up the hill, I noticed that the sun was just peeping through the pines across the Bayou.  It was casting a beautiful golden glow on anything that it touched.  It was then that I saw IT!  There on the side of the Black Gum Tree sat the elusive......RED SQUIRREL!  Yep, it was sitting there motionless hoping that I would pass right on by without noticing it.  Too bad, squirrel!  I have you in my sights!  I carefully took aim and shot!  Picture after picture was taken as the camera clicked.  I was finally going to have "proof" that I have been seeing a red squirrel in the yard!

  Pleased with my efforts, I headed into the Little Bayou House to check my photographs.  Well, that squirrel may as well been Big Foot.  Every picture was blurry!  Not one photograph of the five taken was fit to be called worthwhile. Well, rats!  At least, you can tell what color the critter is but, other than that, the pictures are useless.  I really should stop getting so excited about critters and remember to change the lens on the camera!  This was one of those head-slapping moments.

  These photographs made me giggle a bit as I thought of how hard some folks work to get a blurry photograph of their "elusive, mystical" creatures.  They call it proof.....I call it a mistake...a stupid mistake.