Granite Ouzel

Saw a lot today....too much to post up!...Ouzel clip and pic is from the time I spent at Ouzel's Nest...I set up on the opposite shore...and wanted to get pics and clips of Mama Ouzel...have one where she flies all about, and another hopping about the River Cobbles, and the best, standing on top of the Nest..all for sometime!...walk started out with a Garter Snake wrapped around the first Chapel Bridge Post (second is Bluebird's!)...Tourists were leaning over the railing, and I asked what they were seeing....pics and clip...paddled out Lodgpole Point...Phoebe I think is tending the Little House Nest....Sandpiper across the Creek by the Tiki Outlet(think I heard Owl..one hoo!)...very pretty there now with the Dogwood blooming...too bad the Thunderstorm pelted the Bract Petals into disarray!...Merganser sailed by on the way downstream above Sentinel Bridge...I was on the way upstream to Siberia...thereabouts Deer clip...and White Headed Woodpecker clip...very nice Post Tree home right by the Road...will keep checking this one...paddled out to Happy Isles..Ouzel Nest the destination...I stayed there over an hour...did a sketch...waitedwaited....a lot!...picked up finally and went back to the Snack Stand for a snack and sat awhile by the Fen..did I mention there's a gillion Tourists about?...and all having a very good time, I'd say, though they seem to think the Shuttle is some kind of amusement ride....dont understand quite why more dont just walk from one place to another...went back to the Nest..and took a HD clip from the Path...and said a tentative so long to the Ouzel Babies...as there getting big fast...and it may be a day or two before I'm back that way....continued on the Pony Path to the Indian Caves...grinding stone holes thereabout...and on Path just a bit further on, surprised by a Kingsnake going across...had the 20x on the tripod...but clip is just Kingsnake's tail!...well...that's all snakes are...but I missed Kingsnake's front!...lookedlooked in the stones but no luck...stones were supports for the Path..and looked to be Kingsnake's home, so will check now and then...very pretty snake with the colorful bands!....skipped my friends gathering of writers and poets and such in the Village...too tired....and wanted to go to Owl Woods to listen for Owl....got to the Diversion Channel when almost dark..oh..on the way Deer clip..small herd....at the Channel I didn't hear Owl...but heard a loud branch breaking sound...and Bear came out into the clearing near the Three Cedars...tried for clip, but the 20x doesn't do as well in low light as the 12x...Bear splashed across the Channel...walked about on the far side...did get one or two very noisy pics...for sometime...dont know which Bear though...tried to guess from size, as it was big!...and all dark brown...Bear came splashing back across, and out into the far end of Owl Woods...wishwish there was more light!....I took the use Path to the Cattail Pond...with a wary eye out for Bear!...but there was still plenty light to see...just not enough for the camera!...a real treat to see Bear again!..and the Kingsnake was a first...and the Ouzel pics and clips add to that collection...I have a lot of Ouzel clips and pics...not just the Nest...but from other times too...sunny hot blue with some puffy clouds...try tomorrow to put up some of today's things...dont know where the Owls are...oh!...grinding stone holes right by the A Rooms parking lot...and the deepest I've seen....