Maybe if you’re a skinny guy? They have others that fit over the shoulders and across the chest too.
Almost stepped on this little Burrowing Owl this morning. I was walking across a grassy plateau staring at what I thought was the back of a raptor perched on a rock a long, long distance away. Great way to break a leg AND to add insult to potential injury when I got home and looked at a picture it turned out to have just been a ground squirrel perched on a rock facing me 
. Instead as I was not looking where I was going this guy spooked five feet from me, flew ten yards or so and then gave me a stare down while letting out a few alarm calls. Then it skeddadled a ways across the field. Sorry, dude (probably a dude, males are a little paler and a little more active in broad daylight).
Handsome!
So cool.
Today when I got up I pulled the curtain aside on one of the front windows to see what was going on outside. There was a fox on our porch! As soon as it saw me, it took off. Very odd, as it was daylight. Looked a bit flea-bitten, too, so I was left wondering about its health status.
I had yesterday off and went to a nearby lake… the fall colors were beautiful:
And a river otter came to say hi! Video.
S/he swam a few laps near me, diving a few times, seemingly quite curious and playful. And then it dove under the floating platform I was standing on and started making weird “snoring” noises for a while. I couldn’t coax it back out after that. Hope I didn’t intrude on its territory…
Two days ago actually. I am a member of our local Audubon Society chapter but not as active because I can’t walk far. My sister though is president of the chapter and there is an email ring to alert folks to special bird sightings. There has been a ton of excitement locally here in northwest Kansas of a bird seen in our county. It’s called a king eider, a duck, and according to records it has never been seen in this state. It’s mostly from Canada and Alaska and is probably WAY lost. It’s a female in winter plumage. Sis and I made the rather short drive to see it at Lake Perry and there were at least a dozen other birders out there with their scopes. As is said, don;t look for the birds, look for the birders.
It’s like a real-life version of Big Year!
Loved that movie.
Mrs Magill just sent me this from her window.
Looks.like he brought tha wife.
Not today, but a couple of weeks ago: the Grizzly Giant in Yosemite’s Mariposa Grove.
