On The Trail With Auntie Elk

The lake drain
Waning Crescent Moon
Canada Geese in Spring
Everything flows together when I sit at the lake's edge. The music and the silence between the music become one.
Goose prints in the snow.
Canada Goose, Spotted Sandpiper, and Black-Billed Magpie
Mr. and Ms. Mallard
Diplomatic Poses
The Lake Hut
Guardian and Gosling
Gosling with Egg-tooth
Canada gosling with an egg-tooth
Canada gosling week-one
The lake was big enough for everyone.
Pre-dawn fog envelopes a mountain lake.
One tiny, fuzzy gosling sits in a forest of grass.
Canada Geese with two-week-old goslings
The guardian geese still maintained a strict circle of protection around the goslings.
The sun peeks out from behind the clouds and shines upon Mother Goose and her goslings.
Goslings are animals that communicate with world around them.
Three-week-old gosling.
Sunrise on Pinecone lake. The goslings are almost too big to fit under the guardian goose's wing.
Three-Week-Old gosling
A dabbling brood. Three-week-old goslings.
Canada geese apend a lot of time cleaning and organizing their feathers.
Canada Geese taking a bath in a mountain lake.
Then, the guardians began to cast away their flight feathers.
Canada Goose molting with three-week-old goslings.
Four-week-old goslings and mountain wildflowers.
Four-week old gosling.
Four-week-old gosling.
Gosling in the grass.
Four-week-old goslings lead their guardians into the safety of the lake where one gosling is curious.
Mr. and Ms. Mallard
Night heron and a bear
Five-Week-Old Gosling
Five-week-old goslings make their getaway into the lake.
As the days spun past, the last hint of the fluffy yellow gosling dwindled into something new.
Gosling and goose take a drink of the lake.
Canada geese munching the lawn at dawn.
Six-Week-Old gosling
adopted goslings
Adopted Goslings
The Approaching Storm
Life is dangerous
Mallard at the lake's edge.
Gosling with fishing line entangled around their legs.
Six-week-old gosling with fishing line entangled around their legs.
The peace of the flock munching the lawn was now chaos.
Like smoke from a summer campfire, the hate and the hurt fade into the night sky.
Canada Gosling has mended from their encounter with evil.
Seven-week-old gosling asleep in a field of purple flowers.
Life is a rare and sacred gift.
Canada Goose brood lakeside.
Goslings playing at the lake's edge.
Canada goose after the molt as new flight feather begin to regrow.
Deer in the meadow.
Canada goose wing flaps at a small herd of deer.
Male deer regrowing his antlers.
Like a faint melody, the prairie sage emanated a sweet scent, and everything was OK.
Eight-week-old gosling
The flock made their getaway.
A dabbling brood with eight-week-old goslings.
Female Mallard
Mallard Brood
The Mallard molt.
Canada Goose with full flight feathers.
Side-by side comparison of a one and eight-week-old goslings.
Canada Goose and gosling comparison between a one and eight-week-old goslings.
The End