We got up around our usual time and decided to stay in the RV this morning because the clear sky wouldn't be too good for photographing the Swift Foxes from the blind. I downselected my images from last night in Capture One (C1), then processed three images for the blog and worked up a blog entry.

I had lunch around 12:20 and read more of the June Outdoor Photographer.

Started to set up my mother's iPad

Then I started to get things ready to set up my mother's 64GB iPad 3G. I created a group of address in my Address Book to export, then created a playlist in iTunes of music for her. Then I created a new account on my MacBook Pro for her, and set up quick user switching so I could easily switch between my and my mother's accounts. I moved the Address Book entries and music over to my mother's account, then imported them into her Address Book and iTunes. Then I set up her iCal and Mail. Then I opened up the iPad, and it was packaged really nicely. I used iTunes to move everything over to the iPad, then had the iPad join our wireless network. For the past few days, we've been using our USB sticks in our Kyocera KR2 wireless router instead of directly in our MacBook Pros to access the Verizon Wireless signal, and we've been getting much better data throughput that way — odd. Then I tried the Mail App on the iPad and it couldn't connect to the mail server. It was trying to access "imap.host.com" instead of "pop.host.com" like the account was set up to do on the Mac, and there was no way to change the incoming mail server on the iPad! After deleting the account on the iPad and creating a new one, it ended up going to "imap.host.com" again. I called Apple Technical support, and the guy had me delete the account again and create a new one, but this time I did it without using any special help from the iPad and was able to have it use "pop.host.com," but it still couldn't connect to the server. As I was waiting for the tech guy to come up with another idea, I tried Safari (the web browser) on the iPad for the first time, and instead of going to real web pages, it went to a page provided by our router — the iPad wasn't really connected to the internet — no wonder it couldn't connect to the mail server. I tried to get the iPad to access the internet through our router, and at some point I got disconnected from the Apple support guy. I couldn't get the iPad to play with our router, so I set up an AT&T data plan so the iPad could connect to the internet directly. After that was in place, I could access the web through Safari but I still couldn't get email. :) I called my mother to let her know I was making progress on her iPad and let her know that I planned to ship it out to her on Monday. After that, I deleted the mail account on the iPad and created another one from scratch, and this time it was able to connect to the incoming mail server. :) I listened to some music using the iPod App, and the built-in speakers sounded surprisingly good — hardly Hi-Fi, but acceptable.

Photographed Swift Foxes

We went out to the blind at 5:30 and took dinner with us. One kit was out when we arrived, and at least one kit was out the whole time we were in the blind. :) However, we didn't see the vixen. After shooting for a while, we had dinner when all of the kits were resting in non-photogenic spots. We each had a Bumble Bee Tuna Salad and Crackers, then I had two Clif Bars and J had some potato chips.

The kits spent most of their time hunting insects near the den, and at one point two of the kits came up really close to the blind (far left) and came even closer than the minimum focus distance of our 500 f4s! They also posed nicely individually (near left) and as a pair after grooming (below left).
Shortly before the den area was in the shade as the sun set, the kits had lots of fun playing (near left). We left the blind after the den area was in the shade after the sun set, and at least one kit stayed out as we left.
We returned to the RV around 8:30 and I downloaded the images I took. Then I downselected them in iView before going to bed.