Slept in way past noon....need a name for afternoon cheerios!...checked Ozone Beach...tourists thereabout reported seeing Bobcat by Upper Falls Trail Head...back at the Cabin, gathered all the gear...Doe in the Deer House Woods..pic....through Bobcat Meadow to the Village....picked up snack: egg salad, chips, crangrape...along the Road beside A Meadow, over Three Arch Bridge, Sugarpine Bridge...Nuthatch call at the Backpack Camp...quiet otherwise...and out to the Pony Path and the Snag Nest...One Ouzel perched on Snag in midstream...waitedwaited...ate snack...and out flew Second Ouzel from the Nest...Ouzel flew back and into the Nest I thought, and wasn't sure...and couldn't resist...took off boots and socks, and Indian walked to take a peek...Ouzel flew out chattering, and joined her Mate nearby, and they both were singing and chattering, scolding me....took a quick blurry pic of inside the Nest...pic reveals nothing..too blurry!....sigh...and quick retreated to where I sit hidden behind some Trees...and waitedwaited anxiously for Ouzels to return....was gathering things up, and sighted Ouzels on Boulder near Nest..pics up...and Ouzel flew twice into the Nest...second time to stay...so all okay!...continued along the Pony Path, and a Fen visit, and caught the Shuttle back to the Cabin, almost eight by the time I got to Last Chance for dinner...cloudy blue sometimes a little sunlight, cool...tourists on Shuttle reported it rained for ten minutes on the Mist Trail...rained tourists all day!
Oil Spill:
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...an unprecedented anomaly.
--Thad Allen
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oh...an anomalyanomaly
and here's link to: NPS Oil Spill Response
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