Half Stump Blue Heron

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Sighted Mama Bear and Cub in the Oak Grove from the Shuttle (returning from leaving Silver at the Garage!)...hopped off, and joined the throng...Acorns are about this Fall, and so Bears too!...faraway pics and clips...continued to Last Chance for Late Afternoon snack (Breakfast actually!), and with coffee to Cottonwood Bend to sit awhile (wade a bit in the Merced--pleasantly cool for feets!)...Mallards paddled by...pics and clips...Hawks, Redtails, chasing one another fly over...blurry faraway pics...Hawks flew to the Woods too, and I thought to follow...Mama Doe and Two Fawns thereabout (sighted at Village too)...Fawn pic...couple weeks now since Fawns still had spots....at Creek's End, startled Great Blue Heron...and Heron flew to Half Stump!...very cool...and posed a long while...lots of pics, and clips, but light too low, and had to use high iso, and slow shutter...Woods quiet this Evening...but last four 'at Lunch' have  heard Owls call...thought maybe Hawks were Owls, and maybe Hawks I saw fly to Woods were maybe Owls...wishful imagining!...anyway, a fine day...cooler, sunny blueblue, clouds coming in...report of Bobcat at Church Bowl, with pics...Raccoons, Mama and Two, by Rooms last Night on return from work...a long while ago I was reading a magazine, forget title, but about critters, and a photo of Heron perched in Bayou captioned, 'Reading his book....' which I gather is a country folk expression thereabout....a large Pine, a pic accent, is gone way up by Upper Falls...for sometime comparison pics...