After Breakfast, Shuttled over to the Village with all the gear, checked mail, and continued out to the A Meadow, and across to Church Bowl...quiet...sat awhile on a Picnic Bench-Picnic Benches my favorite perches!--and back up the Rocky Slope heard Frog and Mountain Wren (?)....picked up and continued to the A Rooms...A Rooms due to be down for renovation for three weeks!....not sure if Lobby Paintings will remain, and wanted to have maybe a last looksee....Shuttled back to Lower Falls, and paddled out to the Hummock Ponds in Bobcat Meadow...Nine Mallards about....took clips of Mallards swimming back and forth with Half Dome in background, and reflected in foreground...avi clips, and Mallards too tiny!...but cool souvenir clips....while looking over to the Road, a parked car door shut, and startled Hawk, Cedar, in the Oaks thereabout...Cedar flew to another nearby Branch....picked up, and worked my way around, but Cedar flew to the Elm....tried to get close, and Cedar flew across the Meadow to a Pine by the Merced, way to faraway even to see!...but paddled around Meadow clockwise, and was about to leave off when I reached Chapel Bridge and glimpsed Cedar flying in Chapel Meadow....crossed the Bridge, and sighted Cedar in the Twin Ponderosas (I have pics of Owl and Coop on this same Branch, I think!), and nearing Cedar, Cedar flew off towards the Snag Cottonwoods by the Boardwalk...lost sight, but in following, I sighted Pileated Woodpecker in the Cottonwoods by the River...I had heard Pileated, and Flicker, all the while watching Mallards....sighted what I thought was Pileated, but instead Flickers!....one after another, Flickers flew off, and I looked about for Pileated, and for about fifteen minutes, took pics and clips of Pileated in the Cottonwoods....time...and returned to Lower Falls and around to the Cabin...sunny blueblue warm....pics remind me of my afternoon at the eye exam!...Hawk and Woodpeckers very farfar away....Pine Siskins flock too sighted while with Mallards, and Acorn Woodpeckers, and a Hundred Blue Jays, flying one by one it seemed from Flicker Grove to the Tree Line by the River...oh...at Lunch!...paddled out to Ozone Beach...just as I arrived, Male Merganser furiously flying upriver....rest of sit quiet, and coolish!, and neat to walkabout at Lunch again!....hooey...Pileated I thought was in the pic of Cottonwood and Falls, right at top, but pic is one when Pileated was on far side...try to correct tomorrow!!(Well. checking tonight, Sunday, Pileated is in the Cottonwood, just not where I thought!)......mouse over and clic on pics to enlarge....
To Lantern:
Coopers Hawk in the Library of Congress
CNN's youTube clip (a must see!!)
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The oil painting on plaster, completed by Edwin Blashfield in 1897, depicts a female figure representing Human Understanding. She is lifting the “veil of ignorance” and looking forward to intellectual progress.
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(report thanks to Eddie!)
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