I ride a beach bicycle to work nowadays and had an issue the other morning I'd like to share. My commute consist of a 1/2 mile dirt driveway through 70 year old pines to a locked gate. After that it is about 300 yards of paved road onto another dirt road and then through the back gate at the plant. Takes about 15 minutes. Anyway, on this particular morning everything was going along as usual as I made my way to the gate, unlocked it and pushed the bicycle through. When I stepped back to lock the gate (with my head about 24" from the sphere at the same elevation) I heard something go to raising all kinds of heck. I looked up and there was the resident owl roosting on the sphere. He got all puffed up so I eased away from him and shined the bicycle headlight onto him and snapped this pic with the camera phone. I think I woke him up. Needless to say I did not get the gate locked that morning.

edited to mention using a camera phone to snap the pic

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Jim