hey! look what just pulled into the driveway!
Bobcats (about as dangerous to humans as feral cats but quite a bit more shy) hunt in huge territories (thousands of acres) which they wander through continuously. It's rare that you see one, let alone 2. The only time they stay put anywhere is when they have kittens to feed. What I suspect in this case is that mom was just returning to her normal wandering hunting lifestyle and junior was, unbeknown to him or her, now enrolled in bobcat school.
In the brief time I was able to see them before they disappeared around a neighbor's house the mom was all about hunting - poking around in all the bushes - and junior was all about being a kitten: batting at leaves, "play attacking" mom and jumping 2 feet straight up in the air when startled by something it stepped on. Except for its paws (which are huge) it looks pretty much like a large house cat with a bobbed tail. Mom, on the other hand, at about 30 pounds looks a little more intimidating.
2 comments:
Great picture, lucky you. Every time I've run into mountain lions (three times) or bobcats (twice along the Sacramento River last summer) I haven't had a camera on hand. Once even a male African lion bounded out of the riparian forest on the river and I didn't have a camera (he was being "walked" by his owner).
Wow, they're amazing cats. I never would have thought of them being so close to where humans reside. Still survival means animals will do anything.
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