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Bobcat

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.

Coyote

Coyote, Point Reyes National Seashore

This is a photo of a coyote in new green grass.

Coyote Standing in New, Green Grass

I was out at Point Reyes yesterday.  It was a fairly good day wildlife photography-wise.  I was able to photograph this coyote, a badger, a bobcat, some elk and some hawks.  The coyotes look good right now with their new winter fur.

I prefer the winter and spring for photography at Point Reyes because the grass is green.  Unfortunately, cattle ranching has converted the grasses from the native, perennial grasses that stayed green throughout the year to non-native, annual grasses that die each year when the winter/spring rains end and we go into our dry Mediterranean summer and fall when the place looks like a waste land.