Serendipity
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Yes, it was serendipity that sent me into the living room at just the right moment. There was our golden-yellow bobcat snatching a Mourning Dove from under the feeder. It wasted no time and quickly jumped over the yard wall in a flurry of feathers. This might explain why I’ve been finding so many feathers in the surrounding area. I may have wrongly assumed we had a hawk preying on the feeder birds. While the bobcat normally hunts rabbits, and other small rodents, it will sometimes eat insects and ground-nesting birds.
When we first moved here in July, we were quite amazed to see the bobcat casually strolling across the driveway in the early morning. It didn’t seem to mind that we were sitting in our front courtyard. Once it even sat down and looked in our direction, then slowly walked away. Much to my regret, I’ve never had my camera at the ready when these events occurred, hence the photo that accompanies this story is of a captive bobcat taken at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson.
Bobcat (Lynx rufus)
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