Wildman's Best

[Wildman]

Thank you.  I am lucky to have all of this beauty right outside my door every day.

[Wildman]

Mother Duck teaches youngsters how to look for food at Jackson Lake.

[Wildman]

Water running is something we are not seeing much of this year.  This stone just attracted my attention.

[Wildman]

Two from the archives.

Night Chicken:  Our Cockatoo would let himself out of his cage and go out with the chickens and roost with them.  They would roost on the chain link fence (Until I noticed that they were disappearing one by one)



First Crossing:  Crossing the creek on the Sheriff's Cattle Drive a number of years ago.  It was the first time we had driven over water with the wagon and the girls crossed as if they had done it a hundred times.  You should have seen some of the several hundred outriders try, though.

[Wildman]

We were at Dana Point today to go out on one of the fishing boats to scatter the ashes of one of our nephews.  It was a beautiful day and this old work dingy was tied up next to the bigger boats, waiting for the chance to be used.

[Wildman]

From the archives and the Pechanga Fire, near Temecula a few years ago.  CDF helicopter makes a drop on some hot line.

[Wildman]

The last of the lilies are blooming in the pond in anticipation of the cold weather ahead.  The ponds will freeze solid for weeks at a time and then come Spring, the lilies bloom once again.

[Wildman]

This very young Red Tail Hawk had just flown from the nest and had pounced on a road killed rabbit.  He wasn't quite sure if he should stay around as we drove by or not.  He did fly....kinda crash landed in the top of a tree and promptly, fell to the ground again.  He survived those early adventures and is now soaring over our valley.

[ChattyCathy]

Spectacular pictures - as always!

[WWMtnGal]

Just beautiful

[Wildman]

Thanks.  I am in the process of going through and culling and organizing 25, 617 photos in my files taken since I started 3 years ago.  I have a 450GB hard drive that is almost full with just photos.  Amazing.

[Wildman]

Scrub Jay in the tree out front waits for his turn at the sunflower seeds.



Raven gets a drink at the pond.

[Wildman]

This Quail was just strolling up a country lane in Bishop this Spring.



I was trying to get in better position to photograph some hawks in a tree and I wasn't looking down at all.  I heard a snort and looked up to see this very large bull having a dust bath.  I slowly backed up across the pasture and when I ducked back through the fence I saw this hand lettered sign, " Don't cross this pasture unless you can do it in 9 seconds flat.  Our bull does it in 10!"

[Wildman]

Raven steals a birds egg and flys away fast

[love_walnuts]

Great observation. Were you following the raven for awhile?
As for the Raven, a birds gotta do what a birds gotta do.

[Wildman]

Raven and a friend were in the nest and I was drawn to it by the commotion that Mom and Dad bird were creating.  I didn't know it had something in it's mouth until I saw it on the computer.

[love_walnuts]

LoL... I tell ya, those ravens have chutzpah. Great catch in way of a photo.

[Wildman]

My Mom came down and celebrated her 80th birthday last week and met the horses. 



She couldn't get over how tall Annie was....and how gentle.

[Wildman]

Don't remember why I took this other then it was pleasing to me. I think it was because the tree looked like it had cotton candy in it.

[Wildman]

Sunrise at the Orange Show Evacuation Center



I finally hooked up with my son on the 3rd day of the fire at Jensen's in Blue Jay where we had breakfast.  He had been on a Thermo-gel Task Force since the beginning.  The old and the new.  He's the one with only one chin.



Dawn haze on Highway 18 on the way to briefing at Rim of the World high school.



Bishop Creek