Staying on a feline subject…

On Sunday morning while we were having breakfast my wife suddenly saw an animal crossing the meadow behind our little fence. 

It was the size of a dog, but didn’t look like one. I saw it too but didn’t have my lenses on and could not exactly make out what it was. Then the animal jumped a 4 foot fence like a cat – not a dog - would have and then I spotted the stubby tail that could only belong to a bobcat. 

The reddish critter then fled and disappear. The bobcat is a medium-sized cat native to North America. It ranges from southern Canada through Mexico. 

Its length (including the tail) is up to 125 cm (50 in). It is an adaptable predator that prefers rabbits and hares, but also hunts insects, chickens, geese and other birds, small rodents, and deer.
 

Like most cats, the bobcat is territorial and largely solitary. Our first sighting of what really looked like a bobcat (lynx rufus) not what’s commonly called a lynx (lynx canadensis)!