Skittish Doe

After veryvery late Breakfast, twoish!, chocolate croissant, orange juice, and a coffee I carried from Ozone Beach around the Outside Loop and tossed in a Tiki Can by Sentinel Parking, sat a long while on a Stone Stormdrain Culvert across the Road from the Boardwalk, and lookedandlooked at Glacier Wall...hoped to see Hawk...but no luck...some scenics...Pine and DoubleA Clouds posted up...the Wall is a wonder of Nooks and Crannies and Crags with Pines and other Flora, wind tossed today.....picked up egg salad, fritos, crangrape, in the Village, and continued out to Church Bowl, and up the Rocky Slope Trail back to the Creek Delta...sighted Doe there...blurry pic...and thought to sit and watch by the Creek, but Doe was gone somewhere in a moment I looked away...stayed seated anyway and snacked...stopped at the Cabin for a bit, gathered up all the Gear, and out along the Merced from Ozone Beach to the Broken Cottonwood...hundreds of Violet Green Swallows over Two Top Pine Meadow...Sandpiper in the Slough....stirred up Mallard family at the Cottonwood, and followed them over to the Willows (which are just snags), and sat awhile on the Burnt Log....Song Sparrow perched nearby and sang...clip for sometime...went back to the Slough, but Sandpiper elseware...thought to go along the River aways, and near the end of the Slough, sighted Doe out in the Meadow...was doing clip without much expectation, but Doe's ears were busy, and Doe finally stopped, and on alert...I should have looked up and looked in the direction Doe was looking, because when I did at the end of the clip, Doe having trotted off, I glimpsed the back of maybe Bear or Coyote over by the Cottonwood, which is in a Swale with the Ponds...picked up and went to looksee, but no luck...I'm not even sure if I saw Bear, so a bit of a mystery...wish I'd looked sooner!...paddled back to Ozone, and out to the Woods for near dark Owl Prowl...quiet...generally a quiet afternoon walkabout, critter wise--tourist wise, something else all together!....sunny blueblue warm breezy with hazy clouds in the West, and DoubleAs over the High Country...