Last night, as we were sitting at our dining room table eating dinner, we heard the ravens outside making an unusual amount of noise. We are used to ravens making a lot of noise around our house, but their cawing was of an unusual intensity, frequency, and volume. Sarah stepped out onto the porch to see what all the fuss was about and saw a bobcat right across the road by the fountain. I joined her on the porch just in time to see the bobcat jump down into the concrete area around the fountain.
The ravens were dive-bombing the beleaguered feline, who left the fountain and made its way calmly around the edges of the center grass. Sarah ran back inside, grabbed the camera, threw on a sweater and shoes and then went out to see if she could get a picture of it.
Being the expert tracker that she is, Sarah caught up with the bobcat at the far end of the center grass by the gazebo. She was able to take a couple of pictures, but because of the gathering dusk they are a little dark and fuzzy. Sarah got a good look at it and said that it had short dark fur and most of one of its ears was missing. The ravens didn’t leave it alone until it disappeared into the manzanitas on the hillside just north of the A-frame.
One of the MMAPer couples also saw the bobcat walking through the camp’s parking lot shortly before we saw it across from our house.
2 comments:
that's fantastic, love it!
Cale- That is really cool!
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