foxvox ([info]foxvox) wrote,
@ 2008-04-29 11:34:00
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Wild Kingdom Around Here
First it was the boar and boar piglets (see previous posts for video links), but then last night there was a coyote dodging around here, and this morning, a bobcat! I got a few quick photos - the coyote was elusive and the shot isn't great quality but there's the added bonus of getting a scrub (blue) jay in the shot as well, which I didn't notice until later. (The old bathtub in the field is actually in a cow pasture and is for the cattle - heh.)



The bobcat photo was much better - he was just sitting on the hillside watching us. Seems like he waited for me to snap a photo and then jogged away.



I'm pretty happy to draw the line at animal close encounters with that. I did actually see a mountain lion (cougar) here a number of years ago, but those are really big and I'm not so much interested in seeing one of those close enough to get a photo, even with my zoom lens.



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[info]astartae_
2008-04-29 09:10 pm UTC (link)
Those are great! I love the coyote and jay shot. It looks like they are looking at each other but it's totally an optical illusion. The bobcat pic is also really good! Thanks for posting those!

We have mountain lions (aka cougars) that pad about our house sometimes. When it snows, we can see the huge cat prints around the house. Once a cat actually walked right outside our living room window! Although to be fair, other than the highway and houses beside it, we are pretty much surrounded by national forest.

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