Tonight we had 2 amazing and exciting things happen. As we ate dinner, Ivan suddenly pointed toward the redwoods and said, "There she goes!" as Olive, who had been sitting all day in Tree #1, flew toward where we were sitting, turned and - - - disappeared. I knew she had to be close and we started searching the roof edges, the trellis, and the eaves of the house. She was sitting in what could best be called a cubby where two parts of the roof meet making a, well, cubby with a third part of the roof. She was invisible from above, from below and from all directions except due east. I grabbed the spotting scope and digiscoped this photo:
But wait! That wasn't the end of the fun! I went back to the redwoods and watched Oscar and Othello as they began their nightly foray into the world of large bugs and tiny rodents. Ivan watched Olive. Once the two kids were away, I went back to join Ivan who said Olive was getting ready to leave. I went into the bedroom because the motion-sensitive light had come on. I thought maybe she had set it off. I walked to the sidewalk, looked into the pool yard and there she was!! Hard to describe how cute she looked, perched on a 4" tall light fixture! I shouted to Ivan to get out here with his camera. He did and took this photo:
