Officer snaps ‘Christmas card worthy’ photo with creature he saved on California road
Patrolling officers stopped to move what they thought was a rock in the roadway in California.
Instead, one officer ended up with a “Christmas card worthy” photo.
California Highway Patrol officers were on duty for a graveyard shift in South Lake Tahoe when they spotted what seemed to be a rock in the road, the agency said in a Dec. 12 Facebook post.
They pulled over to move it out of the way and realized it was a small owl “just sitting there,” police said.
One officer picked the owl up, and it walked up his arm before perching on his shoulder.
Officers said the raptor posed for a photo, then flew away. They didn’t say in the post what kind of owl it was.
“What a sweet moment,” one person commented on Facebook.
“Quite the photogenic little owl,” another person wrote.
South Lake Tahoe is about 100 miles northeast of Sacramento.
This story was originally published December 12, 2023 at 11:57 AM.
