Skies, Blue Jays, Grackles, N. Crows, Doves, Chickadees, Wild flowers, and a Red Fox. A Post To SWF.

Big Sky

Today, and in fact the last three days have been overcast with rainy periods. The weather is what I call a painful day; one in which you feel every old injury you ever had. So these skies are from an earlier period in the week.
 While I'm preparing this post, there is one awful struggle going on at the feeders outside my window, rather like West Side story with a three way battle between Huegy, our crow, the Grackles and Huegy's cousin the Blue Jay for control of the food turf.
 So I put them in the post as they're all handsome guys, as well as fierce war lords. Once they break off, the gentler birds take over so they're in the post as well. The rest of the post is some wild flowers still blooming to brighten everything up; followed by a little tour of the west side of the River. The fox sequence happened while I was sitting on the edge of the old bridge abutment taking a rest and was going to take a quick photo to show you how easy this trail is to hike. It just shows how quickly things can change in the forest. If you wan to see another sequence on the fox, go to the index in the sidebar and click on April and move down to the post entitled "Life and Death On the Vermilon River..."

Remember you can click on the photos to enlarge and turn them into a slide show.

Stormy Skies.

More Stormy Skies.

Blue Jay

Common Grackle

Huegy, Our Northern Crow.

Mourning Dove

Black-capped Chickadee

Toadflax

Wild Sunflowers

Canada Geese in the Sun

Almost a Formal Photo of A Song Sparrow.

Mushroom growing out of A stump in the trail.

Rapids Bridge Abutment.

Initial Trail Photo

Fox In trail

Fox In trail.