Two Rainy Day Owls

Paddled over to the near side of the Merced with the new scope...sighted in on the Cottonwood Bowl...and Owl looked very wet inside it!...thought to do a clip...remembered to bring the Bracket...but forgot the 3x camera!...had to paddle all the way back to the Cabin...retrieve it...and decided to cross Chapel Bridge and set up under the Two Ponderosas...was at the Knolls and saw Owl's silhouette in the Pines...set up...but got a lot of lens error messages...which meant the lens was bumping something...kept adjusting..kept getting messages..and finally just set the 3x on the little platform....I'd been trying to hold it in place with a drawer pull knob!..see yesterdays pics!...this may still work..just have to become adept at it...this first try out in the rain with the new scope was tough!...Owl was behind the pine needles...and after a pic and clip, I turned around to the Cottonwood...sighted in, expecting to see the Babies...and saw Mama Owl!...it was Papa Owl over in the Pines!...took pic and clip of Mama Owl...and have the two...Two Rainy Day Owls...Great Horned Owls mate for life...just learned that from tonight's Sat. Nite Live!...skit with Red Tail Hawk...they mate for life too...Canada Geese do too!...checked for Canada..gone the last two days...flown off, likely North!, I suspect....Mallard Pair right by the Deer House, floating about...clip...pics of Bobcat Meadow...for sometime...clip of the Creek from Creek Footbridge....high water washed apart the log jam Mergansers dived under the other day...drizzly rain...went to the Post Office..and Store to buy rubber bands..have an idea to use them to attach the 3x to the Bracket!...someone...someone should just make a spotting scope eyepiece that IS a digital camera...one could just attach it to the scope...save a lot of trouble!!...at work I was putting up bowls at the Soup Island...and Wolfie showed up there getting some soup...showed her the Owl pics...all's well....Papa Owl roosts in the Pines...Mama in the Cottonwood...the tourists I talked to at the Fen the other day said they had an Owl pair in an Oak near their home for eight years!!....thanks for visit, ahLen!