my life my art my journey: scope

Friday, January 15, 2021

Stardate: 01:15:2021

Saturday I headed out to try out the scope...really exciting. It works great and is easy to use and not heavy thanks my friend..

There was Canada Geese and some Mallards on the far shore, I certainly would not have seen those ducks as they were mixed in with the geese, in fact they were out of camera range, this enriched my birding experience.

way out there on the far side,,,

My main goal on this trip tho was to work with the scope and then take a hike....

my path outlined in red.

I moved the van to the start point, a approx 3 miles round trip hike. I've now officially done the entire Tate's Trail its not a long trail it could easily be hiked in a about 2 hrs if you keep moving one way, it's not a loop trail so you would have to turn around hike back all total about 7.4 miles, but if you're like me I stop to bird, to take photos, I cant seem to keep walking lol...so it takes me forever...this 3 mile hike took me 2 and 1/2 hours,,,LOL.

Im in it for the Journey.

This trail is also called the Lakes Trail as it connects 3 of the different lakes, in this section I will pass by 2 of the 3...

lake 12,

An Eagle soared overhead.

Yellow Rump Warbler seen along the way

Back to the map on the way back after my turn around point at the creek crossing, I stopped at the green circle to have a snack and a rest before finishing up the hike..

This bend in the trail has 2 nice benches for a rest so this was my lunch spot just some P-nut butter crackers, a moon pie, and some water...

Lunch break back of Pool D, had a ring necked duck floating around...

have spent a lot of down time during inclimate weather going back and replacing the photos in SOME of my old posts that Flickr destroyed. It's a slow and tedious process and I think I will run out of data storage on Blogger,,,,so Ive open up a few other flickr's under fictitious names to try and obtain the 1,000 free photos storage limit..but mostly Im uploading right to blogger. I don't know how much storage they will allow me.

Red Bellied Woodpecker

The lockdowns along with other factors have put a knot in my tail for a while, travel wise but hopefully I can resume normal at some point in life before I kick the bucket...

Pine Warbler

I have been slowly contacting each Rep member who voted YES to contest on the Electoral College Vote count because public opinion matters to politicians...we must out shout the other side I guess...I don't know....and I also wrote to the 10 brave Republican's who voted to Impeach. IM doing this via twitter, which I rejoined to use for a political voice...it seems that is where the action is. I was happy to see Tim Rice of my state was one who voted Yes on Impeachment. It matters....this is how Unity begins.

Tufted Titmouse

Red Breasted Nuthatch

we had ONE good day of weather this week on Thursday ,,,and the birds were all busy trying to get at the yard feeders so I followed them around trying to get them in candid shots when they waited for their turn.

Purple Finch female

Male,,,

Ruby Crowned Kinglet

Downy Woodpecker

Annie found herself a delicious mushroom to eat...

She dug it up Is this a truffle? I know people use dogs to find Truffles, she is always out mushrooming...she is very good at it, but she eats them immediately and does not share with me or Floss. It had a brown outer covering, but looked bigger than a ping pong ball,,

Pine Siskin (FOY)