OCTOBER 22, 2020.
Finally stirred enough yesterday morning, put on my ankle supports, belted on my binoculars and slung my camera over my jacket, put my camera monopod and little folding chair in my backpack, checked for glasses in my pocket (can’t see my camera screen very good without ‘em), and pedaled on over to my customary valley walk.
Took this snap of Spanish Peak, and thought back to being up there just a few months ago.
Here it is, zoomed in:
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Pretty much dead center on top of that granite mound are the remains of the old fire lookout.
Looking in the direction my eyes are facing, this is what you can see from there:
And that exhausts my Bucket title theme. Let’s get on to my walk, because that turned out to be very rewarding.
Now that the sun doesn’t much show itself until just a bit after 7:30 a.m., I’m getting out later and later for excursions. My walk out puts the sun in front of me, so I don’t worry much about photos until I get to the end and pull my chair out and sit down. Then this flies over, and right overhead, but this is the best photo I could manage:
On the way out I also saw a Muskrat in the creek, but it was very camera-shy, so no photo. I did stand still with my camera poised for several minutes (and shutter finger getting colder and colder) waiting for it to pop back up out of the water, but no luck. Oh well.
There were lots and lots of Western Bluebirds about:
I took several shots of them, but couldn’t get decent focus.
By this time, I was heading back. I had taken some photos of Red-tailed Hawks, but as usual, they were a long way off and I’ve got so many of those type of photos that I didn’t care much about getting them.
So…. I’m almost back at the start of the trail, and look who decides to oblige me:
When I got home and looked at my photos, I had another surprise. This Red-tailed Hawk was banded. Well. That makes another “first” for me!
Hee hee. How ‘bout a couple from the “cutting room floor”? Always good for chagrin.
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