Golden Eagle Sightings !   Hiker: Marc Yaxley On a short 1 hour hike today, I caught a quick video of a mom Eagle launching right over me. I had stumbled near and below a rock outcrop where she had made her seasonal nest and loaded it with eggs. Being a bed and breakfast at first I thought "how many people can I feed with one of those eggs?", then sanity returned and the lowly chicken eggs will have to suffice. Here is a snap of that video of her launching from the nest that I visit next: Looping over my head as I "hung out in the Eagles Nest" (I limited my visit to 2 to 3 minutes only): More fairly close (20') shots of her swooping around me as if to say, "...you better not touch those babies...": The nest niche they live in, two full size adults were in service as I came up, they both flew off as the above photos show, leaving their Eaglet for me to spy on: Mom flying over while I looked around, she did

En joying a breath of fresh air as we "stay at home"! I took these today on a lazy hike into our back country, this is about the natural aged beauty sur rounding us .  Some of the wood shots were once living and now dead wood that still portray certain elements of beauty to some eyes, like mine, I am forever fascinated by wood,  it's grains and fibers showing how it lived once and was strong.  Now home to various bugs and seeds . You will see cliff faces and mountains as well as wonderful still living ancient juniper and pinion bushes . I added a few yard shots show our spring 'gras s circles' in our yard, hmm, mole tunnels or alien landing sites or maybe deer droppings? :