Redwoods

Stopped by the Mairposa Grove on the return from town...paddled out to the Grizzly Giant...pic....Does and Buck along side the Path...pics and clips....Chickarees and Grey Squirrel too...pics and clips...heard Nuthatches..almost a chorus!...and DownyOrHairy Woodpeckers...Raven...and a call I didn't recognize...should have recorded it...sunny cool blue...on the way to town, saw Hawk fly over...and on way back two Hawks...one swooping down to the ground, the other perched on Oak...all from the car going through the Foothills, and no way to get pics...Sparrows and Blackbirds in town...much thanks to my friend for the rideabout!

Hawk: November 30, 2007

Didn't get out and about today...bit of a cold, so thought to rest...got through work ok, and look forward to trip to town tomorrow...friend wants help with video camera purchase....dont know that much about them my ownself...pics and clips up from 2007....been hoping since for more close pics of Coop, but dissappointed again this November....Bobcat's tail is in the clip...see red circle...I may have put this up before....and Coyote was by the Fig Tree later too...the weather this November is very like the weather that November...one difference is water in the Creek...it was dryer in 2007...sunny blue cool today...

Ponderosa Hawk

Out and about early, before Sun up....back to the Creek and Creek's End...cold, but not so cold...some Fog...and then it got cold with a wind from the North East...swirled the Fog about...Kingfisher chattering!...somewhere up towards Chapel Bridge...thought to go thataway, but the Creek a little higher, making the leap problematic...turned about and out the Diversion Channel...crossed through the Woods to the Merced...quiet all the way...turned about and walked back aways along the River...pic of Half Dome Snow topped...sky grey...crossed the Woods to the Bike Path, and sighted Big Wings way high up flying to perch in the Ponderosa....set the tripod down, and tried to get closer with the new camera.. pics up....there was a great pic to be taken, but I had to get to the Tree and go under Hawk's perch branch, and to where I could see Hawk face on and high above...and I was there!...raised the camera...and Hawk took off..pressed shutter...but the camera goes to sleep to conserve battery...and didn't wake up quick enough...Hawk flew to another high perch...pic up...and I went back to get the tripod...wanted a clip, and from a long way away, looked away a moment, and Hawk was gone...following took me back to the Cabin...but no luck...and put the gear up, went to Breakfast, and then back to the Cabin and sleep...some Sun, cool and a dusting of Snow about half way down the Walls....Hawk looks to be Hawk of a few days ago...I think there's a setting on the camera to delay the going to sleep mode....could use one of those my ownself!....Sky was clear, but the Tree branches were 'raining'...still wet from yesterday's Rain....

Backyard Deer

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Back at the Cabin after Breakfast, sitting on the bunk, and kinda sleepy, and...just curled up and napped until worktime...so no walkabout pics or clips...but!...after taking care of whiskers and teeth for worktime, I opened the door, and there was Mama Doe and Two Fawns...hurried back around front to get the 20x...and was able to get a 'walkabout' clip after all!...cloudy and sometime sunny, cool, before work...during work it rained a little...Road wet on the way back to the Cabin after work....not nearly cold enough for Snow...

Raven

Went to Last Chance before sun up for early Breakfast...then went back to sleep!...out and about before work for an hour or so...paddled back to Creek's End...Raven by the Tiki Outlet...above actually...clip and pic up...Wood's quiet...maybe heard Kingfisher....tried for Invisible Bird pics...sunny warm blue....report of Peregrine Falcon running into the Window of the Last Chance Bar...knocked out, but regained consciousness and flew off...this last week...have to research this report a bit!....coming back to Cabin after work, Mama Doe and Two Fawns under the Bus Port...tried for clip...too dark, but lucky to get flash pic!....

Blue Jay

Shuttled over to the Post Office..while there, heard report of hoo hooo in the morning behind the Village...went out that way, and sat awhile at Church Bowl...sunshine...sighted Buck across the A Meadow..and walked out that way....clips of house cats on the way... cats on the loose...not a good thing with Coyote about...clip and pic of Buck...a Thin Antlered Buck...walked back along the Road...and through the Oak Grove...went out to Chapel Bridge..and out Lodgepole Point...across the Creek...in the Backyard, Blue Jay showed and perched on the Litter Pile...not sure what to call it...like a pile of gardening clippings...been there a long time...anyway...pic and clip....thinking of gardening--yesterday, tree trimmers were trimming the Black Oaks in the Village...removing the Mistletoe too....sunny warm blue....and quiet...did hear Flicker, and Nuthatch, and the Invisible Birds....Ravens about....

Sunset Ouzel

Most of the day taken up with laundry, housecleaning...and trying to make some prints...had to move the dishevelment to get to the printer!...did get out for short walks in the morning and evening...in the morning: two Mallards at Creek's End...clip..White Headed Woodpecker in the Woods...clip...in the evening: Young Buck in the Backyard...clip...and Ouzel by the Cottonwood Grove diving in the Merced...clip up...at last light, Sunset show over the Cathedrals and Eagle Peak...pic up...sunny cool blue with a few high clouds...and quiet...critter quiet....usual ever present machine noises....