Mountain Chickadee

Out and about before Sunup....wanted clip of Backyard Dawn Chorus...reprise of earlyearly Fauna Flora Post...picked up, and thought to Owl Prowl a bit...and Providence smiled...Raven Pair and Blue Jays were pestering Owl, Sentinel....clips...but all dark!....just mostly sound...though one has Owl making short flight...and hoohooing too.....with enough light, and an angle, was able to sight with the digi...clips...picked up, I was yawning too!....to Breakfast, and to Cabin, and to Sleep....sunnybluepuffcloudy in the morning...at lunch, greyclouded over...at Lunch: at Ozone Beach, went to Rivers Edge to see closer what was on the Snag Log...just another Snag...turned to go back to Ozone Boulder...but just that quick it was occupied by two tourists contentedly smoking...hmmph...paddled over to the Ponderosa Roots, and sat...quiet...picked up, but as I was, Mountain Chickadee perched and sang....would like very much to get clip of Chickadee's Plaintive Call....returning on the Use Path, sighted Little Yellow Bird....think it might be a MacGillivray's Warbler, which would be new sighting...but have to get better pic!....

Oil Spill: PASS A LOUTRE, La

Horseshoe Crab

A long while ago, I spent a week's vacation at John Pennekamp Park...stayed at little motel, where the first thing I did on arrival was snorkel over the sea grasses on the Gulf side at the end of the motel's dock, and saw Horseshoe Crab....and the slender Barracuda saw me...