Grand Canyanimals

We got shots of lots of animals while we were on this trip. Here are a few shots.

These mule deer hung our in our campground and visited everyone's campsites. Check out how close they are to the tent! Then something spooked them and they went bounding through the campground and ran right through our area.

The canyon is host to a reintorduced California Condor population and they are trhiving. They have successfully bred and fledged. We got a front row seat right in Indian Gardens campground.

On our second day when we set out for the bottomm we paused to get more shots of the condors. An older couple came along and wanted to know what we spotted. When we told them tere were condors up there, the man said, well here, use my long-range lens. He was carrying a Canon camera with a HUGE lens and snapped it right off and let Joe put it on our camera. That was so nice of him and we thanked him profusely. Joe got these shots.

Later that day when we were further down in the canyon we found this little chirpy guy. He is a Canyon Wren.

Close Up.

Here he is on a rock. He sure has a long skinny beak.

When we were close to the top and the end of our trip we were treated with some really cool birds. Check out this woodpecker. She is a Downey Woodpecker.

Then we saw this Steller's Jay right in the same area.

This little guy has a cool pointy crest. He is a Juniper Titmouse. I don't know why they have to call him a titmouse considering he eats berries, not mice, and he's a bird.

Animals are cool.