Paddled over to the Post Office...picked up 99c poster of Grey Owl with little Grey Owls...postage was seven dollars!...Raven pic and Grey Squirrel clip at Shuttle Stop 6?....got a good pic there of four friends sitting on the bench....went out to Chapel Bridge...got there just as the Mallard pair landed...movie Rocky on tonight ..hence Cuff and Link!....followed them downstream to Creek's End...oh!..back at the Oak Grove a mixed group of little birds was about...surprised when a Bluebird flew right over to me...too quick away for close pic!...but got the one on top of the oak protecting wire cage....from Creek's End I went out to Two Top Pine Meadow...haven't been there awhile....nostalgic for the way it was in Spring!!...but got another Blue Bird...and clip of Downy Woodpecker...something with four legs was about..but just got a glimpse!!...to Last Chance for talkabout and late lunch...to Cabin to rest a bit before evening walk...but fell asleep!...stayed put and watched Rocky...grey sky and cool to cold...forecast is for snow!!?...tomorrow will see...Audubon magazine has review of book with Muir's dried and pressed plant specimens...Nature's Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir's Botanical Legacy...Dancing with the Stars on while I'm posting...and brings to mind the wonder I have seeing the critters move in tandem...sometimes pairs..sometimes flocks!...there's likely a name for such critter coordination...have to keep an eye out for it!....well...I googled fish schooling...birds flocking...and animals herding...some neat things...but apperently no polysylable scientific term has attached itself...happend on Aristotle's Life of the Animals...and this from wiki:
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Herd behavior is an excessive collective behavior, for example in stock market bubbles, riots, and cults.
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People dance.
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