Mergansers

At Lunch: sat awhile under the Cotonwoods at Ozone Beach...Robin, Sandpiper, PhorbesOrPeewees calling, Violet Green Swallows, Flicker call, Blue Jay, Mama Mallard and Three, and just as I picked up, sighted Mama Merganser and Two approaching by the Fallen Cedar...missed head on pics of Mergansers fishing..and tried for others, but not much light, and trade off for light and shutter speed...Mergansers cruise, often head down, and when sighting fish, accelerate, splashing,running on the surface, then nose/beak down, and submerge...oh..wish light was brighter!...no fish caught..occasion very like past season when Merganser did catch fish, and I pics!....Mama Doe and Two Fawns by the Perfect Dogwood Woods yesterday...tourists happy to see...me too, as reports of Bear eating Fawns has been miserable...Buck, yearling?, was behind Rooms beside the Path...Doe, yearling?, by Cottonwoods at Lunch...sunny hothot blue with confectionar sugar clouds this evening...'forty five per cent of the country on drought watch'--overheard tourist....'druids rule!...'yes'....'going to gm'....'me too!'...conversation in warsong gulch(oh!..arathi basin I mean!...goldmine is thereabout:)...one needs to be there to understand...though there may really be where there is no there!!!...won that match...druids rule....