Male Bobcat, Point Reyes National Seashore

This is a photo of a male bobcat at Point Reyes National Seashore.

Me?  Gopher Tartare, of course.

I was out at Point Reyes yesterday.  Saw three bobcats. This is the only one I got some decent shots of.  Saw a couple of coyotes as well and they also were not in a cooperative mood.   Some smaller, less competitive bull elephant seals are again hanging out at Drakes Beach as they started doing a few years back.  Didn’t see many fenced-in elk at Tomales Point which is consistent with NPS’s policy of letting them die during drought years rather than providing them with food.   244 elk died at Tomales Point in the past two years under NPS’s “let nature take its course” policy animal enclosure policy.  Thank God the rest of the zoos in the world give food and water to the animals they have locked up.

Bobcat, Point Reyes National Seashore

Photo of a bobcat taken at Point Reyes National Seashore.

I was looking for a photo I took about 10 years ago and stumbled upon this one.  I don’t think I ever did anything with it before, but I like it.  It was taken with a Canon 7D body on a 500mm lens with a 1.4 teleconverter at 1/40 sec. and ISO 1600.  A trip down memory lane.