Doe

http://vimeo.com/15184546

(link to Bald Eagle story...)

Doe And Fawn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnZO-up3BTo&list=UUjXAk71lLu-S_lc4tVafvrQ&index=1&feature=plcp

Two Fawns

Fawn pics from on way to work...Mama Doe was browsing under the Perfect Dogwood..."what should we name her?"...heard from the Deer Jam...just a bit further along in the Woods were Two Fawns, unnoticed!...even tried pointing Fawns out, but everyone busy, and noisy thereabout...Bat pic from at Lunch two Evenings back...Merced Reflection of Sentinel Wall at Lunch at Ozone Beach this Evening...I've studied out paintings to see how artists paint Trees and such...no matter what, one has to abstract them somehow with brushes and other large drawing or painting tools, and lots of different ways are to be seen...and in this photo I see how it might be done, and be true to the Trees and such...there was a  Warm Wind rippling the Merced's surface...I'll keep an eye out for more of the Merced's reflected painting suggestions!!!...sunny hothot blue...report of Mama Raccoon with Two under the Train Wreck....report of Mama Bobcat with Two by Sugar Pine Bridge!!!!...."Dogwood!", of course....

Two Fawns Island

At Lunch: thought to sit awhile under the Cottonwoods at Ozone Beach, but tourist thereabout reading Book, so diverted over to the Ponderosa with the view of Half Dome...quiet...Phoebe flycatching, perching on a Twig in the Merced...and taking pics, looked up a bit, and sighted Mama Doe and Two Fawns on the Little Island thereabout...faraway pics...on return, sighted Fledgeling DownyOrHairy Woodpecker, with Mama DownyOrHairy Woodpecker...tried for pics, but tourists came along....sunny hothot blue...back two days, web report of Mama Doe and Two Fawns in Stoneman Meadow...dont know if same Mama Doe and Two Fawns sighted at Lunch...

Song Sparrow

Paddled out to Ozone Beach in the Evening, take out with, asian salad, gator aid, chocolate chip cookie, and set everything down at the Beach...Two Merganserlings fishing in the Merced, again...Two were about two evenings ago...dont know where Mama Merganser is about...while taking clip (too shaky to post, was using mono pod) heard Branches breaking back in the Woods...went to looksee, and with help, Doe with Ears Up Look, sighted Bear under one of the Apple Trees...too shaky clips!, but cool to see Bear...followed out the Diversion Channel, and along Path, joining tourists along the way, but Bear managed to evade everyone, and lost sight...returned to the Woods on way to Creek's End...Doe eating Apples now...Mama Mallard and Three at Creek's End...quiet...snacked...Bat, Violet Green Swallows, Phoebe back at Ozone, Ravens, Robins...work evenings now, I Lunch sit awhile at Ozone...sunny hothot blue...report of Bear catching Fish in Merced, report of Mountain Lion in Midpines (neighbor's neighbor sighted Lion crossing Road), and media report of Pelican on 120 near the Tunnels...Pelican rescued...many young Pelicans stressed for food, it seems...pic up from Lunch sit.. I'm becoming fond of the big screen tv!...and with the earphones, I'm hearing and seeing the things I was missing with just the laptops screen and speakers...have to move posting old clips in avi to youTube up the sometime list!!....oh!...and this: http://richmondoutside.com/2012/07/30/google-invades-california-national-parks/
....I've been expecting such...and down the road, one will have an avatar, hopefully winged!!

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....

House Wren

House Wren pic from rollover to Convict Lake...that was July 3!...but new bird, for me, so want to add...