Surprises on the way to dinner! I'm a great spotter!

Tonight my husband & I picked up our friends to go out to dinner. We live in an area with woods filled with pine trees, oaks, cedars, etc. It was almost 6 PM as we drove along the road by the Colorado River. I was looking across the river at the ridge above it and saw a cat walking along. "Stop, stop the car! Get out the binoculars!" My husband did as I asked & sure enough along the ridge strode a large bob cat. He never dashed for cover, just lumbered along. It was the first bob cat I had ever seen. Everyone else has seen one or two that live along the river and walk across the golf course from time to time.

The three in the car had been talking about today's golf match and how 2 owls hooted after Gerald made a birdie on the sixth hole. He gets the idea to drive down the dirt road toward the area were they heard the owls. Nothing but bare trees. We turned the car around to go on to dinner when low & behold I spotted a huge owl sitting on a tree branch in the dense part of the woods. Again we slam on the brakes, get out the binoculars, & take a look. This beautiful barred owl is just sitting there looking at us. He turned around with his back toward us and we could see the beautiful brown & white feathers.

It was two exciting finds on a short little trip on the way to dinner. What fun!