Alder Owl

After Breakfast, set up the tripod by the Dogwoods in the Backyard, and waitedwaited.....once Flicker, hidden, sometimes Robins, a couple clips, and all the time, tourists with cameras!....the Backyard is just off the beaten track to Lower Falls, and passing by, everyone sees the Dogwoods and Broadleaf Maples....first some distant pics, then a crunching walk through the Fallen Leaves for close up poses with Tree for background...hmmmph...and the marvelous Sunlight went away as Rain Clouds moved in...picked up and went back to the Creek and sat awhile at the RipRap...Mallard flyby going up creek, and another Mallard calling at Duck Harbor...followed, and got a neat clip of One Mallard thereabout...for sometime....time...one more check of the Dogwoods...quiet...sunny cloudy, a few sprinkles in the late afternoon, warm....at Lunch: time changes tonight, and this evening's Lunch Walk the last until Spring....to the Cabin for the tripod, and back along the Swath to the Creek...quiet....continued to Creek's End, and Mallards at Duck Harbor....pics and clips for sometime...very cool clip of Mallards lifting off at Creek's End...quiet all the while...clip and pic up is from last evening...gonna miss finding hoo hooos at Lunch....still have weekend evenings, if I can resist rolling about all over in Silver!...report of Bobcat yesterday by Housekeeping...