Ozone Deer

Before the '97 'flood', Last Chance had a lot of little cabins in the Backyard...and too were tent and some cabin housing for employees...who, affectionately I'm sure, referred to the area as the "Ozone"...I've taken the name and applied it to the nearby shore of the Merced...which has some nice gravel beaches... and is very popular...but like everywhere in the Valley... if one gets up early...one can have it pretty much to themselves...late evenings are like this too...

I went for the morning walk not real early...nine or so...but no one was about as I approached Ozone Beach...except the Deer!...Mama Doe and One Fawn, Three Bucks, and another Doe...the Fawn's growing fast!....while filming some tourist did show up...but were quiet....the Does and One Fawn were by themselves until the Bucks showed up...and then there was a lot of commotion...running and pronging about...and one Doe tried to kick a Buck...the contrast of sun and shade didn't let me capture it all well...but fun to watch!....

The Mergansers from yesterday evening are the first part of the clip.

Sunny...very bright...warm...some wind.

On the Sometime List is a map with the place names I've made up!...it's needed...I started to regale one co worker with the Appletree Bear story...and it went like this:

"It was the apple tree out in Cook's Meadow...you know where that is?"
"No...uh huh."
"How long you been here?"
"Twenty years."

I need a map.