Bears

Got up for early Breakfast....and walked about a bit out back with just the 12x along...Creek's End quiet....crossed over the Ford...a Tiki Hut ornaments now the Deer House grounds!...likely for the Roofers.. Cook's quiet too!...back to the Cabin and curled up... after Noon paddled over to the Post Office...and there a Stables' denizen photog friend reported the 'big' Bear over by the A. Rooms...this would be the one that visited the Weight Room...and is on the Wanted list apparently...with no sure route in mind...I went thataway...(Silverado is on)....and on the dirt Road under the Arches found a lot of birds in the Clearing...it's the Live Oak Acorns there I think attracting them...Blue Jays, Acorn Woodpeckers, Flickers...clip...headed out the Bike Path to Mirror Lake...and saw the Grey Squirrel high up and far away in the Ponderosa...it's always a great pic when they sit like this on a stub branch!...clip and pic...when I turned around Mama Bear and One Cub were up ahead...pics and clip...too bad so shady!...and the movement made for blurry pic with the new camera...they went off to the side in the Meadow...this near the Backpacker's Camp....another clip...I set up the minidigi...and followed along..well to the back!...and that's what I got...backs!...still always fun to get clips of Bear...lost them by Indian Cave...but just up ahead a couple tourists were looking off into the Talus..and taking pics...when I caught up they told of two young 'yearling?' Bears...playing, standing and wrestling, there just off the Path...but they were gone...up into the Talus...now there's a Horse Trail to Mirror Lake thereabout along the Talus...and I took that the rest of the way...hopeful of seeing the Two Bears...but nothing until I got to Mirror Lake where a young couple with baby in three wheel carriage were starting up the Horse Trail...they were a bit lost!...explained to them how to get to the road...and we went that way...they'd seen the Two Bears too...out in the Lake Meadows...and Mama Bear and One Cub also!...oh...it was almost dark by this time...otherwise I would have sat at the Lake awhile...but as it is...on the way back to the Shuttle Stop on the Road the Two Bears came out of the Trees and crossed the Path right in front...I gave a heads up to another tourist group ahead...and we both tried for pics!...but too dark...clip and pic are still kinda neat...got to the Shuttle Stop and a little rain began....but didn't last...maybe tonight and tomorrow a small Storm...cool and grey...Sun sometime a bright glow in the clouds...one Tourist pointed out that the Two Bears were young enough to have Mama Bear nearby...but I'm thinking they might be Orphaned...oh...Bandtail Pidgeons in the Tree Tops along the Horse Trail...and some more Mushroom pics...different species...oh!...Two Does and Two Fawns by Indian Cave...clip and pic...and Mama Doe and Two Fawns as I neared Mirror Lake...low light clip...Mama Doe looked pretty thin...Deer were after the Live Oak Acorns too, I think...