Busy, Busy in Star Valley

It doesn't seem possible that we have gone a week without a blog update/post. Its not that we haven't been doing anything its just that we haven't taken many images. Our week has been busy trying to improve our pickle ball skills, getting ready for the Alpine Days Mountain Show, and even doing a little golfing.
We have also tried to do some birding, A great horned owl raised owlets on the golf course and on our way to Thayne we saw several people staring at a large cottonwood tree. Stopping to ask what they were seeing they pointed out the owl and her owlets. Unfortunately we didn't have a camera and so we returned the next day only to find a dead owlet alongside the road.
Don't know what killed it, a car or perhaps the falcon that has been hunting just down the road. I like to think it was the falcon as there wasn't much left of the body just a mass of feathers. Of course it could have been fed on by the vixen and her kits that are also just down the road. I don't know of many scavengers that will pass up a free meal.
We did drive to Alpine to deliver some more jewelry at the art shop, Raven Lunatics, and on the way back home we saw a huge flock of American White Pelicans . They were gathered at the mouth of the Salt River, whee it enters Pallisades Reservoir and there has to be a reason for the gathering. They should already be nesting so perhaps the high water, (all the rivers are high and muddy), has concentrated the fish for easy pickings.
Otherwise its been pickle ball mania as we have tried to improve our game. Lots of the players here are really good and so we have been given lessons and advice, lots of much needed advice. I wish my golf game was more consistent as I played the men's league and was doing pretty good till the last three holes.
On hole eighteen I scored a thirteen as I put two balls into the small pond that guards the green. Oh well, lets forget that and concentrate on the four pars I did make. I haven't played golf since last summer and it sure shows, ( I did play in Florida but I injured my foot and so that game doesn't count).
At least the rains have stopped and the snow on the mountain tops are melting. Its going to be a while before we can safely kayak the local rivers and the Snake itself, well that isn't going to happen, The local newspaper did have an article on how to keep from drowning when encountering a strainer, (which is a name for a log that wants to sweep you underneath it). Anyway its going to be a while before we venture out. Clear skies