Owl

Out and about for a short walkabout in the Late Afternoon...Mama Doe and One Fawn by the Perfect Dogwood..pics..snacked at Last Chance, and too, snacked at Ozone Beach...Two Mama Does with One Fawns across on the Far Shore...hard to see, and not sure...maybe more Deer...One Doe and Fawn crossed at the River at Cottonwood Bend....thought to make Inside Loop...but two tourists about...Valley so quiet now that just one or two tourists about in a Meadow, or on the Trail, well, twos a crowd!...fun to have things to oneself, but better to share...anyway...Two Top Pine Meadow quiet...returned, and paddled back to the Cattails to check for Owl...quiet...continued to Creek's End...quiet too...made one more pass through the Woods..quiet, until one hooo hooooo....Sentinel...tried to locate, and nearly left off, and one more hoooo hooooooo....by the Cattails!, I thought...but no, quiet...and then the hooo hoooos started in earnest...Ponderosa and Sentinel serenading...followed here and there, but couldn't sight...thought to hand hold the waterproof and record the singing, but missed turning on clip...hmmph...and when I did sight Ponderosa, pic and clip..the clip with newer camera again is silent...I think what happens is when I set the newer camera to 'crop'.-avi clip cropped-the sound recording doesn't click in, or something...oh, this has decided me to get the new point and shoot...it has the terrific stereo recording, and much easier to handhold, and the long lens reach thrown in...for what I'm about, it works a bit better than the big do 300 lens and dslr...hmmph...anyway..pics up are Ponderosa...artsy photoshopped Half Dome from Creek's End is bottom pic...Outdoor Photography came with a photoshopped cover...seems to be the thing to do...sunny patchy clouds warm...was up late getting wow downloads, uploads, whatever, to work..and playing a bit...well, it was another all nighter...sheesh...slept 'till two in the afternoon..,.somehow, I want to do some like dawn to noon walkabouts, somehow!!...Mallard quacking at Last Light at Creek's End, during the hooo hooooos...

And I looked about, reluctantly, for the Klamath River Grey Whale, knowing it could only be a sad tale, which it is, but honorable, I'd say...
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The whale revived memories of a story told by late tribal member Fannie Flounder and recounted by anthropologist Theodora Kroeber in the book, "The Inland Whale."
"She said when the whale is in the river, it means the world is out of balance ... things aren't the way they should be," said Janet Wortman, a relative of Flounder and partner in the Requa Inn. "Fannie said you all need to get together and pray and dance and beat your feet on the ground and that will tilt the earth back the way it is supposed to be."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/16/klamath-river-whale-dies_n_928392.html
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