Coyote Morning

Out and about early with all the gear....and back to the Cabin three times with troublesome gear....20x keeps giving out with 'busy' and 'low batteries' when batteries okay....finally took the new 12x...I have three of these point and shoots..s3, s5, s11....anyway....each time I started out, I ran into Deer, four or five Does and Two Fawns, and One Buck...first along the Path, then by the Perfect Dogwood (pics up), then right around the Cabin....pics and clips for sometime....wanted to get to Two Top Pine Meadow before the Mists burned off, and was just a little late....pics for sometime....went as far as Swinging Bridge, then out along the Merced in the Meadow...sighted Mama Merganser and Six Merganserlings in the Slough...clip for sometime....then Coyote out in the Meadow....pics and clips for sometime....Coyote was sunning, and gave time to divert the digi to Violet Green Swallow overhead...clips and pics for sometime...lost Coyote, but then near Beaver Bend, looked back over the Meadow, and relocated...very cool..pic and clips up....while doing clips, started to hear Ravens over by Rocky Point, scolding...Coyote heard too...and we paralleled one another trotting over to looksee!....I went a little bit up the Slope, but was a bit spooked by the loud reports of Jumping Rocks earlier...they're loud, like bangity bangs!...so I didn't see what was up with the Ravens...maybe Coyote had better luck!...whole purpose of going out to the Meadow, aside from the knockdown scenery after the Rain, and Snow up on the Rims, was to look for Woodduck at the Willows...but doggone if there wasn't one photog out and about that went exactly there...hmmph...but I thought to go back through the Burnt Forest and looksee, and along thataway, heard emergency vehicles with sirens blaring heading out the Valley...Coyote somewhere still by Rocky Point, heard too, and started barking and howling....so, I went back thataway, but no luck...lots of Bear plop about...so continued along Rocky Slope behind Camp 4....think I got some more Solitaire pics....and did get a Grey Squirrel pic and clip....all for sometime....dropped the gear off at the Cabin, and to Last Chance for Breakfast, and back to the Cabin where I dropped off to sleep!....sunny breaking storm cloudy, cool....at Lunch: sat awhile on Ozone Boulder....Robins, Raven, Woodpecker knocking, probably Acorn, Sandpiper, Mallards, Song Sparrow about...and a flycatcher...Phoebe or Blue Bird..not sure...some neat flight pics...for sometime too!....once determined to do so, and with critter cooperation, and weather!, I can take a lot of pics and clips in a hurry!...I think the Fawns were the Last Chance Fawns...and Doe in the pic up looks pregnant...