I had the day off today and as such I decided to go outside and see the world a little bit.  Since winter is nearly here they have shut down the irrigation ditches.  The ditches on our side of town feed off of the Poudre River.

Well I was walking along and I saw a crawdad or (crayfish) in one of the pools of water that was left behind.

Can you see it?

I used to catch these guys by the bucket load when I was a kid.  We never really did anything with them except to see how many we could catch.  I know that you can eat them, but I just haven’t ever tried.  Something about the mud and the fact I used to catch them in the sewers has totally turned me off to the idea of even trying them..lol.

So anyway I decided to jump down into the ditch and catch it.  It just felt like the right thing to do.

You can tell he lost a pincher at some point as one is larger

They are pretty interesting creatures.  They are fresh water crustaceans and are indicators of a non-polluted environment.