Ground Squirrel

I often pass the Ground Squirrels on way to Last Chance...and thought to set the 20x on the bench for clip...after Breakfast, Shuttled over to the Post Office...looked for Little Birds in the Indian Village..a few there and invisible...walked back to Lower Falls...Oaks are all gold.....mixed flock on the Apple Tree Path...tried for pics and clips...not much luck...Juncos and Yellow Rumps...happened on Does in view from the Creek Footbridge...clip...they have a routine, I think...they come from Rocky Slope...cross the Creek..make a right, and cross the Road...then to the Deer House...and across the Merced at Chapel Bridge..I've seen Deer do this several times....anyway, I left them milling about the Creek, and myself went to Chapel Bridge!...and out Lodgpole Point...sighted a group of Mallards, both male and female Mallards together, some on far side of Merced...three in the Creek...while taking clips, heard Hawk back at the Deer House..quiet when I got there......time for work, and crossed the Creek behind the Deer House...using stones to step on...and in a kinda hurry...book and mail in paper bag slipped from my hand and into the Creek...fished them out with a long stick...but everything wet...a quiet walkabout, but glad to see more Deer...four Does and one Fawn...and the Ducks...like ten of them...heard Kingfisher at Chapel Bridge...stood out on the Bridge and waitedwaited...if I ever do get a good pic of Kingfisher, from the Bridge will likely be the place....overcast, the sun just a sometime glow in the clouds, cool....report of Hawks by Housekeeping..."was across the Road from Housekeeping, and heard a Blue Jay..went to look, and a Hawk was in the tree...it flew about thirty feet to another tree, and the Blue Jay followed and landed on branch right below the Hawk...then the Hawk flew across to a tree in Housekeeping...and another Hawk flew down to the same tree, but the first Hawk flew off"....a Tree to Tree report, I'd say!!...