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Eclipsing 2024… with woodchucks.

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The long awaited solar eclipse was a low key event as Casa River. Yes, we could have driven up north and seen the totality… but the traffic was nuts and the crowds were insane so we settled for 95% on the barn porch.

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I went out half an hour early with a book and a beer.

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I was ready.

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The man cave/Barn Mahal porch proved an excellent viewing platform.

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Though my attempts at photographing the event were less so.

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But it was an awesome sight and we enjoyed the experience.

And while we didn’t have totality darkness, the change in light and temperature was enough to flip out our resident woodchucks who were scurrying all over the place.

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When they see or hear us, they usually hide.

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But not during the eclipse.

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They were looking for shelter and didn’t give us a second thought.

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So how about you?

Did your eclipse viewing include befuddled wildlife….

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28 thoughts on “Eclipsing 2024… with woodchucks.”

  1. That is so odd that you should mention the wildlife… I was outside with Tucker pointing my phone at the weird light behind the overcast clouds filming the strange halo the eclipse was emitting. Total eclipse was supposed to happen at 3:19 p.m. I started filming at 3:15 p.m. At 3:18 the temperature dropped and the light changed and birds in the nearby trees were freaking out! I never hurt so much chatter all at once like that! A couple minutes after the moon moved on slightly and the light started to emerge again the birds went back to normal chatter. So odd.

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  4. It was a nothing burger out here in California – the moon just took a bite of the sun and that was it. I have a friend who did drive up to northern Maine (he lives in Rockport) and got some great shots but that’s his thing. Photography. Our wildlife hardly took note.

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  5. We got 85% of the eclipse here, and I was working from home since my car was with the mechanic to change out an O2 sensor. But, I did manage to see it and then wonder why my cats were acting crazier than usual. They were just on the window ledge, chirping away and then running around hiding. I had to give them some cat nip to chill them the f*** out. My neighbors dog (Rufus) was running around the back yard, not barking, just running around like crazy. Although your viewing platform seems much more cozier than me standing outside in my back yard staring at the sun through those eclipse glasses, lol.

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  6. Interesting eclipse photo. Did the camera still work after that? Did the woodchucks chuck any wood during the eclipse?

    Here, the newspaper says it was 89% of total. I guess they wanted to be really specific. It looked like a sliver of moon but much brighter.

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      1. One could say lame, or artistic. 😉 Once I read about potential fatal damage to my camera I chose not to take any pictures, since I didn’t have glasses. (I was able to borrow them at the grocery store, which is where I was at the peak.)

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  7. It was somewhat cloudy here, so it was a brief time spent on the patio waiting for the clouds to shift. Eventually, we got to see what we were going to be able to see of it. I am sure some of our local ducks, geese, bunnies, groundhogs, and squirrels were like “wait a minute…I haven’t had dinner yet…”

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