Sunday, May 23, 2010

Chipping Sparrow







After Breakfast, paddled to Ozone Beach....sighted Chipping Sparrow Pair, gathering nesting...pics....and walked out to Swinging Bridge along the Merced, looking for the Snag Log....no where to be seen....windy sunny blue, puffy clouds with darkening undersides, at lunch, dark clouds came through the Gates, and it sprinkled a bit, Half Dome dusted with snow from last night...at Lunch: sat awhile at Ozone Boulder...Female Mallard, Sandpiper, flock of Little Birds flyover (Bandtails flewover yesterday), Robins, Sandpipers, about...Song Sparrows...pics...and a tourist's dog got loose at Last Chance after closing, Bishan, and a chaseabout through the familiar warrens!....and concern for an open door escape...surrounded, and captured..."keep Bishan Pooch on a leash...Coyotes outstide!"....much the same experience with our Bishan once on vacation in the Valley!....can't identify the Grey Bird pics up...

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