Creek Bears Dustup

Paddled out to Creek's End...rainy and wet slog...but with the poncho I stay dry okay...again, fresh Bear tracks...but no Bears today...sat awhile near the inland end of Owl Log...a little perch under a Cedar above it...from prints, I could see Fir Bear seems to like to sit and lounge about there on the Log!...have clip from other day of this too...for sometime...stirred up a Mallard pair from the Creek when I arrived....the Carcass is reduced now to just bones......the Creek Bears and Coyote seem to be the only tracks...but not sure on that...wanted to go up to the Three Cedars and investigate...but a fellow on skis was about....never know quite what to do when my solitude is upside someonelses!...solitude is hard to come by in this big and crowded world, I was thinking!...picked up and went through Owl Woods on the service dirt Road and to the Path...no snow on it!...walked over to Ozone Beach...and stood there awhile...with solitude!...except for an occasional bangitybang trash truck emptying Tiki cans behind at the Rooms...the mists were moving through the Trees...and along the South Wall...and, quiet and grace full, Blue Heron came by flying along low over the Merced...and away up stream before I could get the 12x sighted...tried....see pic... imagine Heron flying there slow over the water as the floating mists!!....report of bangitybang throwable noisemakers being used to shooo Bear away over in the Village in the morning... report from friend of the Buck carcass being transported...Rangers told him Buck may have been sick...and missing some of it's teeth...I have a pic of the little Buck's jaw with teeth in tact...but the back ones kinda black...have to study it a bit....clip is from yesterday....rainy all day cool...