Flickers

Flickers were over in Sleepy Owl Woods...they were making those little peeps....which I hadn't heard before....was pursuing them and heard another new sound...sorta like a Hawk...but couldn't find that bird...and it was close too!...on the return through Cook's, Rangers were looking through a scope from Sentinel Parking for lost hiker up on the Falls trail...tried to look too with the miniscope...but seemed a hopeless task...hope they have better luck....report of little Bear right behind the Cabin yesterday morning...new owner of video phone forgot they had it, so no clip...kinda cloudy this morning, but it cleared up...sunny cool and clouds to blue....a new way to survey a terrain, what I do for Hawks and Owls, is to take a pic with a long lens, then crop zoom in on the pic with 'digital zoom'....didn't think to try that with the new camera, but it would work...how I found Hawk-in-the-Oaks cropped pic...I moved side to side all the way from top of the whole pic to its bottom...and finally found Hawk at the bottom edge.....sometime I can only sorta see where Hawk has perched...and just take a pic on the half chance, as was the case with that one....on the lcd screen I'll zoom in and go through all the branches....camoflauge is a tough color!

Running Bear and Running Squirrel

I met up with Bear 6 again coming back from Breakfast ....all I had was the 12x...from the Backyard to over the Creek again at the Riprap...to the Deer House...out in Cook's...under the Boardwalk through the Lily Pad Pond...Bear ran over to Flicker Grove...and stopped traffic at Lower Falls...where I lost touch...thought to go back and get everything at the Cabin...but kept on to the Post Office...with an eye out for Mushrooms....and an occasional look up for critters!....took another pic of the White Mushrooms...Squirrel was at the Woodpecker Tree...clip...put some stills at the end so the end might make sense...happens quick!...actually...an action movie on...that kinda trick probably has a name...checked the Giant Mushroom.....same size...sunny cool and blue...

A Giant Mushroom

Almost curled up after Breakfast...but put the socks and shoes back on, geared up and lifted off the bunk, and paddled about out back and to Creek's End....looking for Mushrooms!....found the Giant Mushroom out on Lodgepole Point...will check it tomorrow to see if it keeps growing...I think there might be a trick to taking the close up shots...and that is to set something, like a piece of paper, something large enough for the autofocus to see...and press the shutter part way to lock it on...problem looks to be that the 'beam' is going past the tiny subjects....One Fawn clip is from the other day...note the chip in the Teleconverter!...tripod fell over doing the clip....well..not while...when I reached down to get the minidigi....I was back and forth with them...Teleconvertor took the brunt and broke off...which likely saved the 12x!....sunny cool and blue...needless to say, no storms in the forecasts for days and days....

White Mushrooms

Well, I have to get a Mushroom book too!...dont know what these are...or the other ones in the pics of few days ago...these are really tiny....and in the fallen Oak Leaves by the Post Office...Flicker was over thereabouts too...the Mushrooms, being very white, were really hard to photograph...will try again tomorrow...would like to get their detail....and now I'm looking for Mushrooms...the ones I've been finding have been just by accident...today I got pushed off the Path by a bicycler...looked down...and there they were!...I've gotten some other fungi pics too...even the Dog Vomit (a slime mold, I've learned!)...that was up on the roadtrail to May Lake last summer...sunny cold and blue...a link to article about mushrooms:

http://dir.salon.com/story/mwt/wire/2005/06/25/mushrooming_is_mushrooming/index.html

Antlered Buck

Roofers were working on the Deer House in the Background...so thought to include them in the Deer Clip!....this maybe the fourth time of late I've seen Buck jousting with the foliage....earlier, on the way back from the Post Office, I saw the Western Bluebirds again on the Boardwalk...distant clip...report of a 'black mountain lion' in Mariposa...sunny cool and blue...Cottonwood leaves frost covered on the Paths.....

oh...quoting Keats the other night, got me to thinking today what might be my top ten favorite lines of poetry....I posed the question too to a friend at work...who struggled a bit with it, as I did too!...modern memories are kinda...weak!...anyway...the first one they popped out was 'miles to go before I sleep'....which would be one of mine too...but it's not a whole line!...then they added stuff like...'boil boil toil and trouble'....which isn't a poem, but a spell!...and not a whole line!!...then they added one of their own...so I had to qualify the quest with...'deceased poets'....but I got to thinking...what might be ten famous words of poetry....shorter even then the snips being tossed out!...I was thinking of 'Tyger, Tyger"....which is not only a top ten one word snip...but the whole line is a top ten!....anyway...here's a start at my top ten lines...

The Sedge is withered from the Lake, and no birds sing. --Keats
Tyger! Tyger! Burning Bright in the Forests of the Night! --Blake
We are the stuff dreams are made of, and our little lives rounded with a sleep. --Shakespeare
There is one story, and one story only, that will prove worth your telling... --Graves

A lot of lines from my friend were like from...Lewis Carroll, or some such...this to say they lacked...sublimity...if that's a word!!...or they were fluffed up...like the lines on the Statue of Liberty...grand things...that's okay...one doesn't want to constrain things too much...but I'm inclined to regard ones that go along with a winter walkabout!

Two paths diverged in a yellow wood....

let me check to see if that's quoted right...brb...roads!....funny what the mind's eye does!....paths would have been better!...implying footpaths...as opposed to automobiles or horse drawn wagons....and last summer, I asked another friend why was 'yellow' chosen...and they totally side slipped into another topic...I tend to squirrel these things away like the woodpecker's acorns!...'yellow', in my first thought thinking, must have referred to Fall yellow leaves...I'm not one to think good poets write words with the notion the reader can make of them what they will...poems aren't picassos!...poets are very precise...so maybe Frost is putting the whole thing into a November....or December..'rawest of seasons'...setting...but I dont know...for sometime!...

anyway, Poe's Raven of course came up...'once upon a midnight dreary'...and Poe may have the top one word from a poem!!

'Nevermore'

A poster with the Raven of the other night post with 'Nevemore' across the bottom would be knockdown!!

Not seeing much on the walks...so gotta write something!

"Cottonwood leaves frost covered on the paths..."

Well...'roads' went with 'wood' and 'yell..ow' and 'tw o'..lets hope that's not all to them!!

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Phoebe

Set up the minidigiscope before I set out...and Antlered Buck was right outside walking about...clip is all blurry and bouncy...but kinda cool...went to Creek's End...got my boots wet crossing...but got across with one hop!...then one of the boots squeaked all the way over to Mirror Lake...and back too after dark!...a long walk!...Phoebe was at the Woodpecker Tree....saw Mama Doe and One Fawn just upstream from Sentinel Bridge....clip and pics....stopped in Siberia to purchase some winter gloves and a pullover and yet another head lamp...some things I cant resist collecting...helped the economy a bit on all that too, I'd say!...report of Bobcat out at Happy Isles a week ago...at the Mirror Lake stop, tourist hopping on reported bear cub....talk on the Shuttle was of critter sightings...which tends to happen of late when I'm aboard!...stayed at Mirror Lake until sunset...one Antlered Buck in the Lake Meadow....tried for pics and clip...it went up Creek....tagged along on the use path along Tenaya Creek...both sides have these...and I haven't walked them before...kinda neat little trails...its very quiet...few bird sounds...'the sedge has withered on the Lake, and no birds sing'....report of Owl at midday going tree to tree at the Backpacker's Camp...sunny blue and cold enough for gloves!

Coyote and Deer

Made an afternoon walk over to the Post Office...new adaptor for the binocs came....makes it so I can set it on the tripod....works okay!...Deer portion of clip was taken with this yet-another-contraption...digiscope binoculars!....I set the 3x up with the bracket on the one side of the binocs...through the other lens I sighted in on the Doe at Lodgpole Point....I had to adust a little to align the camera...but was able to sight quick... a lot faster than with the minidigi...and of course the bigdigi!....Binoc lens vignettes badly...but okay for clips and 'holga' pics!...took it easy today...trying to kick the cold...tomorrow I'll try to make a day of it with the contraptions!...Coyote was on the Boardwalk by the Artist's Grove...and was annoyed with me for disturbing it's listening for Meadow Critters....was happy to see Coyote...been awhile....a quiet walk other wise...Critter and Tourist wise!!...sunny cool to cold and blue....Doe was by the Village Path....dial mistakenly set to M and wrong exposure made for just the eyes pic...