Yesterday on the front porch I had the D700 wearing the old 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR lens, hoping to catch the squirrel who's been steadily dismantling the pumpkin in the raised bed. (I don't mind him doing it; that's why I move it out there from the front porch after Halloween.)
One thing I'm trying to do is get more into using Photoshop for something other than hitting the autocorrect buttons in Camera Raw.
Granted, using the auto subject select function and fiddling with the exposure on the squirrel isn't much more sophisticated, but it's a start.