Furiously Flying

Out and about before Dawn with all the gear....woke up and couldn't go back to sleep, so, paddled out to Bobcat Meadow...had the headlamp on, and used it to scan here and there, especially into the Trees...but no eye reflections....made a whole circuit of the Meadow before any light at all...Sky clear... cool....and quiet except for the Frogs...and a couple Song Sparrows singing in their Sleep....then...on the second go round with first light...I'll try to remember the order!...Robins by the Deer House..Song Sparrows by the Merced...Mallards flying to the Lily Pad Pond...Acorn Woodpeckers at the Woodpecker Tree..turned back...Redwing Blackbird by the Apple Tree near the River....Hummingbird there calling too...Black Phoebe by Chapel Bridge...clip....thought to cross the Bridge..but hungry and sleepy...Blue Jays at the Shuttle Stop....several Flickers at the Lower Falls MiniMeadow...Two Ravens gathering twigs by the Cabin at the Path...along the Path, Brown Creeper...more Acorn Woodpeckers at the Snags behind the Rooms...out to the Fallen Cedar...Male and Two Female Mallards in the pooling water in the low spot grasses just behind where I sit at Lunch...pics...and was sighting Male Merganser cruising upstream along the opposite bank...watched Merganser awhile, and sat by the Fallen Cedar when Merganser turned back...pic through the Cedar...and then Merganser picked up and flew furiously around the bend going downstream...picpicpicpicpic...all blurry of course, but much fun!!...to Breakfast, and to the Cabin and snooze....on the way to work, Hummingbird atop the same Alder, think it's an Alder, as yesterday...flight pic!...sunny blueblue hot...to the Fallen Cedar at Lunch...Mallard pair circling around counterclockwise over the River and the Meadow...more blurry pic fun!!...Mallard Pair in the Pool...pics...Robin at the River's Edge drinking...pic...this pic for sometime..it's nice!...shared the Meadow morning with one far away photog sighting on Half Dome and the Elm....and that was at first light...earlier no one, and very dark, save for the Chapel Light...and the baleful Red Light on the TikiTemple by the Deer House...oh..and the car headlamps....tomorrow at Sunup I'm going to try to go to Chapel Meadow near Swinging Bridge...Wind was tossing the Falls..pic at the Woodpecker Tree....Blue Tags showing up on the Trees about Last Chance again...look to be ones too close to buildings....Tree in the Door's Cedar being one tagged...hmmph...