A couple of days ago, while birding in my warbler hotspot, I came around a bend and suddenly caught the eyes of a Bobcat looking at me from a big mesquite tree. It was close but it just stayed there and watched me. I took some photos and backed away. Later I came back and it was gone.
At the ponds, the latest excitement has been two Semipalmated Sandpipers, a Red-breasted Merganser and two Red-necked Phalaropes.
The Bobcat. It was laying on a horizontal trunk of a big mesquite. All I could see was its head. One of two Red-necked Phalaropes at the Ajo sewage ponds. It is really hard to get good photos at this site, which is too bad, because it does attract a lot of good birds. A lot of Vaux’s Swift have moved in. I keep trying for good shots but it is very hard. This isn’t too bad, but still a large crop, which really reduces detail. I have a lot that are much worse though!
2 replies on “Bobcat”
Its always fun to see a bobcat. It looks like migration is picking up there. Trifid Nebula is really pretty, I read that it can be seen with binoculars but is not colorful that way.
Yes, with binos and even a telescope the Trifid just looks like a grayish patch in the Milky Way. It takes long exposure photography to see much of anything out there!
2 replies on “Bobcat”
Its always fun to see a bobcat. It looks like migration is picking up there. Trifid Nebula is really pretty, I read that it can be seen with binoculars but is not colorful that way.
Yes, with binos and even a telescope the Trifid just looks like a grayish patch in the Milky Way. It takes long exposure photography to see much of anything out there!