Paddled over to the Post Office...took the Shuttle back to Lower Falls...sat awhile at the Village stop...and at the Deer House Picnic Tables...but didn't see much anywhere!...could hear the little Kinglets...and Acorn Woodpeckers at the Woodpecker Tree...a few Bluebirds at the Oak Arc Branch Over Half Dome...finally I saw a Downy Woodpecker up in an Alder in the Deer House Oaks...distant pic and clip...oh...and Raven came by and said a clocking hi!...clip....Creek is nice to see with the water running....and to hear!...with the Falls too!...pic and clip is of Chicaree (Chickaree)...which I've been calling Golden Mantle Squirrel...and it's from Oct. 28 last year.....on the Riprap by the Creek Bridge....saw one Grey Squirrel today....it's going to be interesting to see what happens without the acorns...Old report in the Nature Notes...like from 1922!...I'll have to post that up....said all but a couple of Acorn Woodpeckers left the Valley when the Acorn cropped failed...cool sunny...hazy gauzy clouds....
Muir's tale of the Douglas Squirrel
http://www.yosemite.ca.us/john_muir_writings/the_mountains_of_california/chapter_9.html
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