Bobcat Encounter

Went to take the recycling out and found this critter walking between me and the bin. Any other animal would run but bobcats freeze and then start stalking you. Needless to say, I headed back inside and waited for it to clear out.

Recycling out, it was time to bring in the bird feeders. The bears will mangle them if I don't so I leave them on the bulkhead steps each night. I no sooner opened and popped out the bulkhead doors and there was my friend again. It was apparently focused on a rabbit so I ran for the camera.

Had to distract it to get the face.

Then back to stalking the rabbit

We watched it out the window for a while and, when it lunged, it kept leaping from the weeds from one end of the side yard to the other. Don't know if it was successful or not.

As long as I'm at it, here are a couple of groundhog/woodchuck/marmot/ pictures from the other day.

Through the window scrren.

Caught it off the end of the house. Wildlife camera on the tree at the right didn't catch it.

-JC-

Finally, a bear siting

I suppose that it's a good thing but we haven't seen any bears this summer. The neighbors have reported seeing several so we know that they've been out there.


One of our wildlife cams finally picked one up. The camera was aimed across the back of the lawn toward the windmill. The bear was crossing from the driveway toward the creek at the edge of the lawn. The Japanese Maple in the clip is about 4' tall so that will give you a sense of the bear's size.

Taken on 6/22/18 @ 8:33pm

-JC-