Out and about at first light...paddled back to Creek's End...Brown Creeper singing 'dee dee deedlee dee'...looped along the Merced to Ozone Beach and back through the Woods and out at the Lunch Sit Log....a kinda hairpin loop!....heard Ouzel, Ravens, Acorn Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Flicker...and some Little Bird...scenic with mists and pink horsetail clouds....looked to be a sunny blue day, but rained a bit in late afternoon...Doe and Mama Doe with One Fawn back at the Cabin...the Fawn looks to be one of the Last Chance Pair...which would be a fit with the Fawn I saw alone...curious to know when the Fawns strike out on their own...the Last Chance Fawns have been the largest and most robust looking...after Breakfast, snoozed until work time...report of Hawk's call by Last Chance in the afternoon...neat story in web news about 'Herbie' the 240 year old Dutch Elm Tree and it's 101 year old guardian.....not sure what kinda Elm it is is in Bobcat Meadow...liked the bit about the 'Sons of Liberty' meeting under an Elm Tree...brb...
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Hutchings also planted a row of American elms along the route of the present road that crosses the meadow north of the present Sentinel Bridge. These were grown from seed supplied by Rev. Joseph Worcester
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Photo by Anderson
American elm and black locust in Old Village of Waltham, Massachusetts (5). Of these trees only one remains. It can be found near the road intersection on the north side of the Valley opposite the Sentinel Bridge
http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/broadleaved_trees/introduced_trees.html
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There are some young Elms beside the 'one elm'. and too, some more to the left as one is walking towards the Chapel after crossing Chapel Bridge. There's a good little book in the library about the local Trees. The 'one elm' has been photographed more than once!!
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