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This site is dedicated to wildlife and landscape photography.
I photographed this bobcat at Point Reyes a few days ago at sunset. The ranch area has greened up which makes for a better background than is the case in summer and fall when the non-native grasses are all brown and dead.
Late one afternoon, a bobcat hunts on a ridge in Point Reyes National Seashore. This bobcat had just caught a gopher moments before, and was now on his way to the second course.
I went out to Point Reyes National Seashore yesterday hoping the recent rains had caused the non-native, annual grasses to go from brown to green and they had done so.
This bobcat was unfazed by my presence as it hunted gophers.
On the Hunt
Here’s a bobcat that I photographed recently at sunset at Point Reyes National Seashore. A bobcat at sunset with a clean foreground and background is what I always hope for.
Ready for takeoff.
I went out to Point Reyes Seashore yesterday. There wasn’t much to see, except for hundreds of people enjoying the day off. I’m seeing very few elk at Tomales Point since the Park Service let 224 of them die of starvation in 2020 and 2021 while locked up behind that elk-proof fence. That’s half the herd.
This female kestrel made the day a little brighter.
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, Point Reyes National Seashore
I saw this coyote walking through this silage field a few weeks ago. Silage consists of any of a number of plants that are mowed in the spring when still green for feeding cattle. I have written about it in the past. One problem with it is that when it is mowed in the spring it results in the deaths of any number of ground or near-ground nesting birds and their offspring. It also kills small mammals that live in the tall, protective vegetation and larger mammals like deer fawns, who are wired to stay still even when a noisy mower is approaching. They stay still because they aren’t very fast on their “feet” during that first week. Same applies to the rest of the deer family (elk and moose) and to pronghorns. Not bison calves though. Those bison calves, aka “red dogs,” can run with their moms from birth.
