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I've noticed that when walking the dog in the ravine, if I don't take my camera with me, it's like walking through a Disney diorama of furry critters. Yet if I take the camera, there's nothing.

So last night I grabbed it at the last second and didn't expect to see anything, what with the mountain bikers whizzing along the track and a gaggle of youths squawking by that red bridge.

So imagine my surprise at finding an owl, perched on the outer limb of a pine tree. We went as close as we dared, until I noticed that the trees were 'crawling' with owls. Well, Ma, Pa and baby owls . {might have been 2}. That's when memories of Hitchcock films or Stephen King stories work on the imagination, and I decided that my little pooch didn't need to attract too much culinary attention from these raptors. Anyway - lesson learned.

Keep the camera packed, as you just never know.