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When we left the house the temperature was in the teens, 14 or so. We headed to the creek to let the dogs out to play for a short time. It was really to cold out to let the dogs out of the warm truck for to long. These are some of the shots I got of the icy creek, It was really to cold to hold the camera still. I am a wimp when it comes to the cold! It did reach 25 degrees today in the sunshine!!

Spiders Web Over The Creek. We ran upon this creek that was still running pretty good. I like spiders web, there neat !

While deep in the Ochoco Mountains we ran across a nice flowing creek. I love running water and just had to stop!! Upon inspection of where we were it was obvious this spot had been used as a hunting camp. The legs of the elk and the "meat hangers" (we laughed for I am sure there is a real name for them ha) , that were nailed to the trees. The feathers laying around looked as if maybe a turkey was in the mix with the elk? Even a spot for a bathroom. Gave us this impression. Guy wondered further down the creek then I for things happen to catch my eye. So I was wondering around on my own taking shots of the ice that was found where the water was not running fast. As I was doing my thing I heard some racket that was obviously coming from the trees and from birds. As you can imagine wild creatures do not just sit still so one can snap off photographs, so off I went to get this loud birds photographs! There were at least 3 of these birds, however non of them were all that impressed with any of us there! From the information I gathered of this bird, these must of been truly wild Gray Jays!! Not yet ingrained with human presents. I first thought this was a nutcracker. We have many of those around so it seams. Same family as these Gray Jays, but so is the steller's jay,blue jay and the western scrub jay , the crows, the ravens there is a lot of species in the Corvidae family!! From the sub species of the Gray Jay and getting these photographs in the Ochoco mountains this determined these to be the Bicolored Gray Jay. One thing all these birds have in common is, they are very smart!! Smarter then humans give them credit for! Over the Cascade Mountains there is yet another sub species of the Gray Jay over there with different needs and habits. That Gray Jay does not like snow, the ones here better like snow! Like all birds of the Corvidae family, they are pretty much scavengers, however it appears all the species of the Gray Jay have different food s

Tree In The Creek Bed

Running Creek Up In The Ochoco Mountains.

I like photographing such things, nature makes it's own designs and we need to do nothing but look.

Lake Trout. Where we found these, there was more than one, was not a huge body of water which is going away fast.

Dragonfly. This is one of the larger dragonfly's. I am not sure if it has it's tail in the water to lay eggs, or to drink?? Or??

Canyon Stream. Black Canyon Wilderness, Oregon. We found ourselves in the black canyon wilderness, nearest town is Dayville Oregon.