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Photo 1:
Well Dang!
I'd been eagerly watching my owl box since an owl visited it for one day in mid October. Only squirrels had occupied it since. At dusk yesterday I got excited when I saw a face with white on it which would rule out a squirrel. Grabbed my camera, turned on the flash since it was so dark. Dang it, that is not an owl either. Has to be a pretty small possum to get in that opening.
Photo 2:
Taking The Slow Elevator Down
When the interloper saw me, it sank out of sight in slow motion, was hilarious to watch. I made all kinds of interesting and coaxing sounds but it refused to look out again. This morning no sign of it. Back to hoping that someday a screech owl couple will move in & raise babies.

Oh my god this made my day. I looked out over the sea and realized that the ground was moving:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkx8gVKFqlQ&feature=youtu.be

A dense army of little crabs marching along shoving sand into their mouths and spitting it out in balls. The larger ones had yellower legs. They weren't overly wary and would bury themselves in a funny, slow, awkward-looking spiral.

I saw his head sticking up in the waves about 1/2mi out in the lake seemingly heading towards St. Helena Island during my initial scan in the morning. About 15min later he made the wise decision to return to shore directly in front of me. I was expecting him to barely be able to walk ashore after all of that swimming but he began to run through the water and then into the forest. A very memorable experience