While waiting for Dan we noticed the gutter was dripping: a leaf was decanting snow melt over the gutter edge onto the tarp covered table below. We moved the table and found something like elk droppings all around its base. Grossed out, we cleaned it up. Then my wife removed the tarp and found more elk pellets between the tarp and table! We also found coarse white hairs. I know my sh*t so she left it to me to classify the (half pail) of droppings. It was either a short ungulate, large rodent, or a rare cross. I needed just a bit more evidence... these 3 things sticking into the bottom of the tarp helped. The clear tip is, I guess, like a hair follicle. The dark tip is barbed and readily causes the quill to stick in something, oh, like a tarp (or lip, nose, eyelid, snout, etc). 10Mar11

12mm extension tube on a 24-105/F4 lens.

PP: DxO Optics Pro 6.5, Lightroom 2.7, CS5. Background is a non-stick baking surface. Penny added for scale.