Bobcat Doing Laps (Pun Intended)

Bobcat Rarity

Despite having literally hundreds of great videos of bobcats captured by our trail cameras, we almost never see them ourselves. They are stealthy and shy. This video represents one of the few times we ever got to see one with our own eyeballs - let alone have her sit for a while so I could get a good video!

Skull of Destiny

 Near our hoops court is an aging elk skull that is equal parts haunting and beautiful (especially with all the moss and leaves on it). Many animals visit the skull - these are just some of them in the last two months (shown chronologically). You'll see bears, raccoons, deer, bobcats, elk and coyotes. Several of the elk chew on the bones and many of the animals react to the skull.  You'll even see a three-legged coyote - who made me sad when I first saw her, but now inspires me because she does so well and gets around as easy as the rest of her pack. Notice that most of the clips are from the night time. Maybe that's because that's when they feel the elk spirit the strongest! 

Bobcat Hearts Elk Spirit

Just one day after the elk skull terrified an unsuspecting raccoon, this bobcat had the opposite reaction.  Loving every second of their encounter.

June 14th

A variety of animals hung out around the house on June 14th - I made this video from different clips from that day.  I had to slow down the bobcat clip because she went by so quickly.  This was actually the first day we saw the baby bear that we have now seen a couple more times since.

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Bear glamour shot...

Owl Incoming!

Snowy Deer...

Bobcat Too Close...

Just Missed!

Back when the pond was dry (this is the usual bottom of it) - a scruffy coyote scoots off to the left just one second before a bobcat appears on the right.  Of course, there was no video framing out there in nature, so I'm sure they were hyper aware of each other.  Interestingly, on other videos I've seen deer chase coyotes and bobcats chase deer - but also, deer chase bobcats.  It's sort of a rock, scissors, paper thing.

As Close As You'll Ever Be to A Bobcat's Butt

Glad this Bobcat didn't spray the camera. Her butt was certainly locked and loaded. The surprise of this funny video is that there were actually two bobcats. That's unusual for our yard - they are almost always loners.

Bobcat Fun Time

On a snowy day in February, this bobcat was having more fun than just about any creature on Earth.  I love watching our wildlife play with joy and abandon.

Badass Bobcat

This beautiful creature is made even more menacing when I add the slo-mo instant replay.  She's just lumbering along the driveway in the cold light of day.  Awesome.

Bobcat Boomerang

Nice video of a bobcat running back and forth... and back again.

BTW, I will now be mainly posting stuff from our yard here on this blog.  Twitter and YouTube are not my favorite outlets.  This is a more cohesive and friendlier way to post.  Hope you visit here again soon!

A Bobcat visits the Pond

There have (sadly) been less bobcats in the last few months.  I think it has something to do with the unusual snow that sat frozen around all of our yard for almost all of February and much of March.  I think the bobcats went elsewhere to find an easier place to live and look for food.  Of course, if that is the case, it was great news for our bunnies, mice and other bobcat prey!  Just this week, we've had a few more sightings of bobcats - here's one by the pond (which is almost completely dried up for the summer).