Ouzel

Gathered the gear, and before First Light, paddled out to Creek's End...Blue Jays calling here and there...quiet...continued on Inside Loop, clockwise, and at the same place I saw Mama Doe and Two Fawns the other morning (Bear Plop Shores), I made another effort to sight the Little Bird in the Willows thereabout...lots of blurry pics and clips...sighted Song Sparrow, Brown Creeper, and the Little Bird of most interest, Winter Wren...Wren was singing and talking...call on clip...behind me, heard Deer crossing the Merced, and too, Two Mergansers diving for Fish...picked up and followed Mergansers around Cottonwood Bend as far as Ozone Beach..been awhile since I played leap frog with Mergansers...object is to trot ahead, set up, and get clip as Mergansers pass by in the Current...have many avi clips of this, but few hd...and still few..clips too far away..Deer clips, Wren clips, too blurry...the newer camera doesn't lend itself to moving subjects..anyway...Ouzel pic up from morning before...I'm trying to make a routine of earlyearly morning walks, and maybe posting too--five thirty am at moment...sunny blueblue hot, clouds in afternoon...at Lunch: Ouzels about, Mama Doe and Two Fawns across the Merced at Ozone Beach...tourists came by on two rafts, kidding one another loudly and laughing, all the way to Swinging Bridge, voices echoing--River very low now, and likely last rafters of Season...heared Hawk, Redshoulder, in the Morning, Flicker too, and Flicker at Lunch...and the Tall Cottonwood that stands by itself at Ozone Beach is dropping its Leaves...thought is that it was overwatered during High Water...Leaves on all the Cottonwoods look to be pale, kinda like the Alder leaves when they begin to fall...Alder Leaves dont change colors much at all, and am wondering if the Cottonwoods wont show much color this Fall...