Antelope Community Park
3:40 p.m.
cloudy, looks like rain: clouds thickening and getting darker, wind is picking up, feels chilly
Walking up the path we startled a group of birds - meadowlarks, I think - they were hiding in the long blowing green grasses and glew up in arcs, landing back down farther away - brown bodies with yellow bellies - biker startled them and they flew up into one of the grand oaks.
A little farther along a red-tailed hawk flew overhead - big strong bird - little flapping, silent.
Found another fallen log/branch under another valley oak, stopping to make observations (out with Phil today) Phil is facinated with holes and the creatures they might contain...
ground observations: tall green grass, wide round leaved plant with tiny white flowers
eye level: branches of the oak tree budding out in green before its neighbors - why? first buds look like fuzzy green worms, then open into familiar oak shape
overhead: puffy white clouds now breaking up a little - looks like it might NOT rain on us - seagull soaring, wind quickly carries him away
now a pair of red-tails soar overhead - heading into the wind, they have to work a little, could see the feathers of the wingtips clearly
Found several scattered feathers not far from another big oak - flight feathers and soft downy clumps from a body - looked like somebody was lunch - maybe for one of our red-tailed friends?
