Critters on the Path

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Critters on the Path - Sometimes I get lucky on my scooter rides around our Grand Oaks. The last time it might have been a handsome tree. The time before that, maybe a cloud or the sunshine. This time, it was critters. The first of those critters were some coal-black buzzards that Nature had sent here to clean the remains of a little squirrel from the roadway. They must have been quite hungry for some squirrel steak because they did not spook even when I drove the mobility scooter almost right up to them. After I left them at the dessert course of their midday meal, they kept after things. By the time I returned, they were gone, as was what had once been a little squirrel. Further along the pathway there is a big drainage ditch over which my favorite red wooden bridge goes and into which two big drainage pipes go from underneath the automobile roadway above them. As I crossed over the wooden bridge today, a small, yellow-striped kitty cat raced under the bridge, jumped over the water flowing down there, and climbed up to rest in one of the two drainage pipes. It, too, was not frightened away by me or the scooter. So I pulled out the camera from its carry case and popped a picture of the cat in the drainage pipe. From the way that cat was behaving, I believe that it thought I was incapable of doing it any harm or any bother, for that matter. Image: Buzzards at Work, Cat in the Drainage Pipe - Gus Kilthau