"Peek-a-boo"

Night before last I got absolutely no pictures so I was cautiously optimistic that I had won the war.  But just  to be sure I set up again last night, and set the camera sensitivity to maximum...and guess what.  Unfortunately because of the sensitivity I got over 800 pictures that I had to wade through to find a total of about 20 that actually had a live subject.

And because of the 800 pictures the chip filled up completely before Raty had a chance to check out the peanut butter.  But some time before morning he apparently did!!  My wife claims that peanut butter is good for your health but I think that's a generalization to which there are exceptions.

And this is the biggest freakin rat I've seen since the  one at the Fiesta Inn that I used to stay at in Mexico!

I swear to god the rats have been mating with ground hogs or something.  I couldn't resist collecting his key characteristics.




Yup!  Fourteen inches long from nose to tail!




And 260 grams!  That's about 9 ounces or to put it into perspective, my third born male child weighed about 1200 grams when he was a week old.  (don't tell Roo that I used the food scale)

The size of this guy makes me think that maybe I've been underestimating the scope of the burrow they have under the coop.  The fact that I have not been able to gas them would attest to the same thing. 

I set the camera up again tonite but restricted the shots to every 30 seconds.  I wonder how the chickens feel about 800 flash pops throughout the night?

So what do you think?  With the demise of this monster is that the end of them?  Or is WWIII just beginning?  Exciting  eh?  

Love

Peter