Bobcats

Three or four years ago, a hunter was video taping a turkey on the hill and caught a bobcat running by. We all thought it was pretty much a fluke, an itinerant, looking for new territory. They just don’t live around here. But a year ago this past winter, we started to hear about other sightings. One evening in May 2006, I was visiting with my nephew Mike outside in the driveway, and we saw this bobcat, just below the yard. Actually, there were two! So this wasn't window hunting; it was yard hunting. Always keeping an eye out down the road like I told you. This one was patient enough for me to run back in the house and get the camera. One crossed the road above the house later that evening. I saw it again the following week in the same location. It was suspected that we may have a breeding pair in the area. Later in the summer, I saw a bobcat kitten several times. And I saw a bobcat again in the fall. Maybe they're here to stay.