Bobcat

[user 574]

Cool pics I took in front of my house this morning. Chasing after a rabbit and got away.

 

[Ol' Grog]

Nice pictures.

 

[Brewpastor]

Very cool. All I get are coyotes. Do you see bobcats often?

 

[Desert_Sky]

too freaking cool man. Out of the 20+ years I lived in AZ, Ive still have yet to see one in the wild.

Your up off Ina right?

 

[Pumbaa]

here I though you were gonna be bragging about a new toy

 

[user 574]

I live about 2 miles or so north of Ina and a bit east of La Cholla. 1 acre lots and some open spaces but I have a wash behind my house that eventually goes into the mountains. I see bobcats, javelina and coyotes about every day if I look for them. They scoot between me and the neighbors house. I think the predators head into the golf course that's fairly close to me in the evening. Lots of wabbit's eating grass and the water for drinking. Head back in the morning. Wildlife seems to have figured out that we humans have tasty poodles and cats too. They're getting a bit bold nowadays.

 

[Cap'n Jewbeard]

Oh, see, I thought you found yourselves one of these, of the genus goldthwaitii

 

[Caplan]

Neat pics desertBrew! I guess the Bobcats and Javelina are more fun to see than the rattlesnakes you have to watch out for!

 

[Desert_Sky]

Neat pics desertBrew! I guess the Bobcats and Javelina are more fun to see than the rattlesnakes you have to watch out for!

You dont really need to neccesarily watch out for the rattlers. They pretty much let you know where they are.

 

[Cheesefood]

We have really fat squirrels sometimes, and lots of skunk, deer, raccoons and the occasional coyote or fox.

One night me and the Mrs. were walking our dog, and we saw a big german sheppherd looking dog at the end of the block. My wife started making comments about dogs not being on leashes when we realized it wasn't a dog but a coyote.

 

[Caplan]

You dont really need to neccesarily watch out for the rattlers. They pretty much let you know where they are.

I'd have to insist that they did!

Obviously we don't get many snakes in the UK so I guess I view seeing them in the backyard as a little weird!

In the UK we have 2 native species - The Grass Snake and the Adder. The one 'poisonous' snake (the Adder) is not only a fair rare creature but also not that toxic!

Foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, roe deer, mink, stoats, voles, rats, mice and (grey) squirrels are about the only 4 legged wildlife I can remember seeing in various places I've lived in the UK.

 

[david_42]

We have a few bobcats around here. Unfortunately, we also have more than a few idiots who shoot them just for grins. Ran across one guy last year that said he had about 30 skins,scrapped and cured. I asked him about the market for them. There isn't one. So, why is this bozo wasting bullets?

Sure, they kill cats and small yappy dogs, but what's your point?

 

[Pumbaa]

We have really fat squirrels sometimes, and lots of skunk, deer, raccoons and the occasional coyote or fox.

yeah same here . . . but I had a plan once to swap some of our squirrels for some of them monkeys in Japan. IMHO it would make life in the hood (firehouse area) a hell of a lot more interesting when we are haning out on the apron at night

 

[dibby33]

I had a blue tounged skink (lizard about 45cm long) at my back door a couple of days ago. Very relieved to see legs on it I can tell you! ...Lot of tiger snakes around this year.

Nice photos

 

[Bernie Brewer]

We have a few bobcats around here. Unfortunately, we also have more than a few idiots who shoot them just for grins. Ran across one guy last year that said he had about 30 skins,scrapped and cured. I asked him about the market for them. There isn't one. So, why is this bozo wasting bullets?

Sure, they kill cats and small yappy dogs, but what's your point?

I'm not a trapper, so I'm not positive about this, but I'm pretty sure there is a trapping season for bobcat here in WI. I've never seen any, as they're usually pretty skittish of people, but I see plenty of other critters, since I live about a ten-minute walk from a pretty big chunk of public hunting land. Lots of deer , pheasant, coyotes, turkey, fox, ducks, geese, and WAY too many sandhill cranes!

Oh, and on a sad note, we often find drop-offs. You know, pets that people no longer want so they dump them in the sticks rather than taking them to the Humane Society. A$$holes.

 

[Vermicous]

I spent two months in Austrailia. Never got to see Tasmania, just Sydney, Armidale, and two memorable weeks just outside of Cairns.

Until that trip, I never knew how many ways Mother Nature could claw, bite, sting, gore, and stab you to death. From the harpoon-shooting snails to cassawaries, everything there seems out to get you. And it wasn't as if you had a snake bite you, the wound could just be washed out and bound up. Maybe you would see a doctor later that day. Instead, you have to get a good description of the snake or capture it (preferably dead) and run as fast as you can to the nearest hospital, hoping they can match the antivenin.

A great place though, would go back in a heartbeat.

To go back on-topic, I always get excited when some of the higher predators are moving back into the area. My livestock-raising friends would probably disagree, but it's a good thing when you can see bobcats and coyotes coming back. I keep hoping to see wolf sign in the area, but that may be another 10 years or so.

I am very much a tree-hugger, calming down in my old age though.

 

[user 574]

I used to be a hunter back in my younger days. Now I just appreciate watching them and taking their pics.

Cheesefood, you got deer down there now? Man, you all used to come up to WI to get drunk, hit the native american stip clubs and pretend you were big game hunters in latter november. Just before I left 10 years ago, finding deer started to be easy. 25 years ago it was actually hard to find a deer to hunt (I only bow hunted. More integrity IMO and not as cold ).

 

[Dude]

Wow....they get that close? Cool pics Jeff!

 

[TxBrew]

Looks friendly, a new pet perhaps?

 

[Pumbaa]

Cheesefood, you got deer down there now? Man, you all used to come up to WI to get drunk, hit the native american stip clubs and pretend you were big game hunters in latter november. Just before I left 10 years ago, finding deer started to be easy. 25 years ago it was actually hard to find a deer to hunt (I only bow hunted. More integrity IMO and not as cold ).

We are practically over run with deer up here anymore. I remember when I was a kid if you could get a doe permit you were one lucky SOB . . . now ya have to shoot a doe in many places to earn the privlage to shoot a buck.

http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/news/DNRNews_Lookup.asp?id=39
MADISON – With the Nov. 18-26, 2006 gun deer season just around the corner, Wisconsin wildlife managers would like to wish hunters “good luck and safe hunting.” They also remind hunters that there are a number of hunting rule changes in place for 2006, rules hunters requested.

“Have fun and be safe first, and foremost, but remember this is a very important season for deer hunters,” said Keith Warnke, Department of Natural Resources deer and bear ecologist. “We worked with hunters to build a season structure they feel will be effective, easier to understand, maintain tradition, and rekindle the excitement of opening day.”

In 2005, Wisconsin hunters harvested more than 467,000 deer, the sixth best season in Wisconsin hunting history. Wisconsin holds the record among states for a single year harvest at 618,000 in 2000, and is also the top deer harvest producing state over the past decade. Despite these record harvests, in 2006, Wisconsin’s deer herd remains above population goals. Wildlife managers estimate it to be at 1.5 to 1.7 million animals going into the hunting season.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

We are practically over run with deer up here anymore. I remember when I was a kid if you could get a doe permit you were one lucky SOB . . . now ya have to shoot a doe in many places to earn the privlage to shoot a buck.

Pumbaa, are you old enough to remember party tags? What a joke that was.....

 

[user 574]

Pumbaa, are you old enough to remember party tags? What a joke that was.....

I remember!

With that many deer running around that's not called hunting; that's called "waiting".

 

[Pumbaa]

Pumbaa, are you old enough to remember party tags? What a joke that was.....

I'll be 37 this March, yeah I remember them. I really should start hunting again but I've become a lazy p*ssy . . .

Now if I could go hunting at noon in the summer that would be perfect