Field training in southern California

The last AKC hunt test of the year is in a week and a half, so I've been out to Prado several times recently, to see if it is at all possible to get a leg!  ;-)  Noticed that the crawdads at the T pond are acting weird...

 

For some reason, before they come out on land, they wave their claws around above the surface of the water.  Dunno what it's for!

 

A couple of them waving their claws and one on the shore.

Not much for flowers this time of year, except for these big yellow ones which are all over.  These are at Gordy's in one of the very few surviving clumps of cattails (the trialers don't like having any cover in the way of their marks).

Dusk at the T pond!