Monday, July 25, 2011

Deer Tracks Beach Ospreys










So, I got up before Sunrise, picked up coffee and mcmuffin with hash brown patty, and was rolling with all the gear, almost...forgot the newest computer, and wanted it with...so backtracked, and finally arrived at Westport around six thirty....grey overcast gloomy cool....sat a long while, wondering if Ospreys leave the Nest in such conditions!!!....after an hour or so, went for a rollabout up a Road, forget name, nearby, that went far up and into the Coastal Hills...overcast up there too...turned back, returned to the Bluff, and proceeded with plans to go down to the Beach and waitwait...and I waited and waited..watched Seagulls, and Pelicans, and Cormorants, and Buzzbirds....tired to sight Little Birds in the Bluff's low growing Vegetation....quietquiet....Beach was a crescent in the curve of the Bluffs...Rocks going out at each Point...picked up and walked about, and found Two Deer Tracks!!!...and very fresh...think Deer must have been about while I was dozing up on the Bluff!!...hmmph...followed Tracks, and couldn't figure how Deer came down to, and left, the Beach...a curio....chased Seagull with Crab...wanted pic of Crab...didn't think to take pic of Seagull with Crab!....had the Blanket with, and folded it up for a cushion, and waitedwaited on a Driftwood Log...several Logs about!....and, finally, One Osprey came flying over head flying South, and following, Second Osprey did a U Turn overhead, and flew North...and, Ospreys were gone as suddenly as appearing!....waitedandwaited...set up the Scope, and watched Seagulls, and Pelican, and Cormorants...quiet....sound of Surf and a Low Grey Sky...scenic pics of Fog moving into the Coast Hills far in the distance....finally, it's getting near noon!!, I sight Osprey in distance, kinda where I first saw Ospreys hereabout, above the Bluff...one quick blurry faraway pic...reviewed, and I see Osprey has a Giant Fish!!!...well...that's that, I say to myself, Ospreys will feast, and goof off the rest of the Day!....so I picked up, and rolled back to Ft. Bragg to get a snack...and just after getting gas, and snack, the Sun came out!!...Sky blueblue!!....so, I rolled back to Westport...and more to report!!..to be continued...oh!...walking up from the Beach to the top of the Bluffs, some New Bird, for me, pics...for sometime soon!!!...tomorrowmorrow, a long roll back to the Valley...I checked the camera time stamp on the Osprey pics today, and from Friday when thereabout...both times Ospreys were about around ten thirty....maybe, maybe that's when Ospreys usually wake up...too..

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