On the way to Breakfast, clip of Tiger Swallowtail on the Azalea by Last Chance...Tourist and I were taking pics at same time...and Tiger kept flitting about!....much fun....after Breakfast, paddled over to the Post Office...picked up lunch....tuna, chips, hershys and snapple...and out and about behind the A. Rooms...clip of climbers on Arches with new digiscope...found a picnic bench at the Backpackers' Camp and ate lunch...hot and muggy...and mosquitoes....continued over to and out the Pony Path, and at the Big Boulder, saw a Grey Squirrel run across the Fallen Old Log Bridge, and then a Ground Squirrel...thought to set up for clip of this...and waitedwaited...and finally Grey Squirrel ran back across..very neat clip!....waitedwaited in hope Grey would come back...but no luck...and picked up...met a new employee who had just seen a 'three foot black snake'...we both searched the branches and rocks along the River bank...no luck...woke me up though to activate the 'dont jump out of your skin when you see a snake' mode....little further on, saw a Ranger and friend looking at a Boulder in the River...'What are you sighting?' I asked...'Ouzel Nest'...oh!...OH!!!...'Let me set up the scope!'....right on the Trail I set up and we all had a looksee....very cool to see Mama and Papa Ouzel swoop in to feed their Babies....I attached the 3x to the scope and got some clips...lot of waitingwaiting!...after the Ranger and friend left..with many thanks!...I set up on a Boulder at water's edge...clips and pics with the 20x and the digi...didn't have the new camera along...or the binocs...and I needed both!!...hmmph...I would like to travel lighter...but the last few days have been so quiet, I left the new camera behind...now I'll likely take it back to the Pony Path tomorrow...try for a sharper pic of the Ouzels...and maybe get that Squirrel coming over the Log Bridge clip!...pics and clips were tough to take...one problem was the long wait...nothing I could do to anticipate when Mama Ouzel would swoop in, so just had to let the cameras run...clip of all Three is from the tail end of a five minute clip!....mostly of the Babies just waitingwaiting!!....the Nest itself is just wonderful, the way it's attached to the Boulder..and the location in the Merced...a Magnificent Nest!....hikers came by and much talk in the soundtracks...a Gilbert's Skink was about..and I got some pics...for sometime...finally picked up...and on to Happy Isles...through the Fen..which is looking now very 'fennish'...past the many new Tents at Boy's Town...and all the way back to the Cabin with nary a pic...couple scenics in the A. Meadow...a long walkabout!...sunny hot blue with some Double A Clouds with dark undersides..but they never gathered together like yesterday...it cooled off a little towards the later afternoon...report of Bear, one by Ranger, forget were, and friend at Breakfast, forget were that one was too!...oh!...Sentinel Bridge one was I think......across from the Village store the second..right where I was yesterday morning!...hmmph...out of sync with the Bears!!
Web Page of the Day (found this one looking for Ouzel Nests...one on this page looks much like the one today!!)
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