Canada Goose

Started out to the Post Office...just gorgeous weather...and thought to check on Owl...pic and clip...while on Lodgpole Point, Yellow Rumps...and a small Grey Bird...pics for sometime...had noticed Violet Green Swallows out in Bobcat Meadow..went out on the Booardwalk and tried for some inflight pics...got a couple..try for more tomorrow!...great fun...saw some Mallards in the distance...then saw one with different markings...and a very long neck...a Goose!...Canadian Goose I told a biology class on field trip later...Canada Goose the name I gathered later from the books...spent the whole walk taking pics and clips...couldn't get close...most with the minididgi...clips of Redwings singing...found the one Brewers? Blackbird making the funny background sound...pic...very neat time out around about the Meadow with Goose!...Marsh the students called it!...never did get to the Post Office...sunny blue sorta cool...ice on the Falls Wall from last night...and a little frost on the grasses and leaves...oh...Chestnut Chicadees...for sometime...a mixed flock of little bird pics of late!!... sometime!...brb...want to check on the rarity of Goose hereabouts...well...the Nature Notes have it that the first 'Honker' was sighted in the Valley on March 10, 1934 at High Noon at Mirror Lake...cool...well..it was a 'cool sunny day' then too!! link:http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/yosemite_nature_notes/13/13-8.pdf

Here's a page of 'infrequently' seen birds in the Valley..note Ravens!!
http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/birds_of_yosemite/infrequent_species.html
an old book...