I do not live on a lake. Phillips Pond is about 1/2 mile away here in Sandown. I do have a brook that feeds into Phillips Pond 100' from my door. This morning at 7:00 AM as I was going out to wash the car I saw a Crayfish in the middle of the yard just working their way along in the grass. It was heading from the brook not towards it. While I washed the car he made it all the way to the driveway whereupon I picked it up and returned it to the brook in a calm water pool.
Why would this creature leave its normal enviroment and head away from it. There is no other water source in the direction it was heading except a small seasonal brook that was 200' away.
I took a video of it and the clicking sound is the crayfish.
http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...hp?photo=15156