Subject: [Tweeters] Another non-bird
Date: Feb 3 22:03:01 2007
From: C. Anderson - christyrae at hotmail.com


I live in the Eastgate area of Bellevue, just off a ravine, and imagine my
surprise when I looked out my window last week and saw a bobcat in the
backyard!! I got a pretty good look, but it went over the edge of the ravine
out of sight. I thought I would never be able to get closer, but I went
outside to try. As I carefully approached the edge to look over, there it
was, about 20 feet away, looking right back at me. We had a stare down for
about a full minute, then it seemed to sink down, turned to the side (giving
another great look at a different angle) and deliberately moved off,
disappearing into the shrubs. Absolutely no doubt in my mind. The stripy
face, tufted ears, short tail - right out of the field guide! What a
beautiful and thrilling sight!

Christy Anderson
Bellevue WA

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From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Alex
Meilleur
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 9:51 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] River otters


Dear everyone who responded about River otters,
Thanks a lot to all of you who provided such neat input on Lake Washington
and Puget Sound area otters. It's encouraging to see such a charismatic
species like this apparently increasing in our part of the world. When I
left Seattle 25 years ago, my sense was they were rare then and declining.
Before coming back to the region a couple of years ago, I lived for many
years in Europe and it was sad to find otters widely extirpated there.
By the way, this is Brien writing; Alex is my son. We use the same email
address for tweeters. Thanks again.
Brien Meilleur
alexskichambe at hotmail.com


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