Mallards

After Breakfast, sat awhile on Ozone Boulder...Merced back out of its channel, almost to the Boulder...Sandpipers, Robins, Raven, Song Sparrow about....Female Merganser flyby...Grosbeak perched overhead...pic...picked up and back on the Path to the Cabin...nearing there, sighted MacGillivay's Warbler...pic for sometime...and at the Cabin took a nap....sunny blue warm, overcast in later afternoon, clearing a bit at dusk with broken clouds...late afternoon, paddled back to Ozone Beach...Mallards pics and clips...Ground Squirrel clip on the way...and continued out to Two Top Pine Meadow....went around Two Top Pine to the right, skirting the Scorched Forest, and took a seat on the Burnt Log by the Willows... hoped to see again Woodduck!...but no luck....experimented with the kodak...(it digis okay, but clips too contrasty on the computer screen)....Redwings, Brewers, Mallards, Sandpipers, Violet Green Swallows, Blue Bird, about...Doe in the Meadow by Two Top, and one Doe came from the Forest and looped all the way around by the Broken Cottonwwod...pics....may have been same Doe....tried for Swallow pics....getting near dinner time, so picked up, but forgot bandana, again, so went back to the Log....lots of Swallows and Bluebirds about....and more Does...pics and clips...returned again to the Forest, and startled Bear...Bear was browsing grasses along the Forest's edge....tried for digi clips....but low light, and lots of Trees to sight through....cool to see Bear....picked up when the clips were nearly black, and back to the Cabin...and dinner at Last Resort...minestrone, chips with guacamole, sprite....oh...sighted Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly while at Ozone...too far away for pic....