More video of the raging Shellpot Creek

Watch the large branch go under just above the waterfall at the beginning of the video. There were many large logs going by. Just as long as they keep going by and don't get stuck on my part of the creek.

Video of Raging Shellpot Creek

The creek is roaring today.

Mouse battle

We have been battling a mouse in the house since before spring. I think the weather drives them inside. We had scattered sitings, but each time it was a gray streak across the house. That mouse was fast. Last week Lynn "captured" it by throwing a towel over it and then a box, I had to slide another flat piece of cardboard under that and deliver the critter to the outdoors.

The video shows that it was alive when we put him out there, but not doing to well. Later it was dead. I am guessing it was old or had some troubles and that is how we were able to catch it in the first place.

The video is proof that the mouse was alive when we put it outside. Although I wouldn't have minded if a broadwinged hawk swooped down and ate it.

Highest Shellpot Creek levels in 2009 - video

As promised here is video of Shellpot Creek just after the torrential downpours Saturday. The creek was easily the highest it has been in 2009. The USGS agrees, as seen on the following graph. The red circle shows Saturday's peak. It is almost double the peak from May 16th (Note the log scale, click for larger.)


The first video is of the creek just downstream and up to the waterfall at the corner of my house. You can barely see the waterfall because the water is almost level going over it.



The second video is upstream of the waterfall, and also shows how the temporary streams formed by some drainage swales I have in the yard won't drain into a creek that is higher than they are. Gravity still works here.



It was very dramatic and very loud.

Blue Heron on Shellpot Creek - Video

After complaining of the difficulty of taking pictures of the Blue Heron that frequents Shellpot Creek behind my house, I was able to get it hunting fish on video.



In the video above watch it dive after a fish and ruffle its wings.



Here is a brief moment of flight that I mostly missed.

Someday I will get a better camera with a sharper telephoto lens and a blue heron blind and I will be set.