{"id":1210,"date":"2008-12-02T23:47:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T07:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2008-12-03T01:53:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T09:53:03","slug":"natures-two-acres-xxxviii-a-bobbed-tail-of-two-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"Nature’s Two Acres XXXVIII: This time it’s a tale of two bobbed cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was preparing to fix breakfast about 11 a.m. today when I looked out the kitchen window and saw a bobcat hunting just outside.<\/p>\n

\"100_1060_3.jpg\" Two weeks ago, as was reported here, I had been thrilled to see and photograph a bobcat hunting near a car parked at my house. This time, the bobcat was even closer.<\/p>\n

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To photograph it, I slid open the kitchen window as quietly as I could, freezing motionless whenever the bobcat heard a noise and looked up.
\n\"100_1054_3.jpg\"The cat was hunting gophers, and I while I watched, it pounced and caught one. With the gopher dangling from its mouth, the bobcat then ran uphill to eat its meal under a clump of coyote brush. Later today, I twice again spotted the bobcat nearby.<\/p>\n

\"100_1029_1.jpg\"Three or four mornings ago, I had likewise looked out a kitchen window and spotted a mottled cat (at left) with a bobbed tail hunting near my woodpile.<\/p>\n

Before I got too excited, however, I used my binoculars to inspect it more thoroughly. Rats! It was just a big housecat with a bobbed tail.<\/p>\n

\"100_1035_1.jpg\"Soon the cat walked over to my woodpile and sat at the edge of the tarpaulin that covers it.<\/p>\n

While all this was going on, I took a couple of photos just to illustrate the difference between a real bobcat, Lynx rufus<\/em> californicus<\/em>, and a faux bobcat, Felis catus<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As can be seen in the photos, the easiest way to tell them apart is that real bobcats don’t wear pet collars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was preparing to fix breakfast about 11 a.m. today when I looked out the kitchen window and saw a bobcat hunting just outside. Two weeks ago, as was reported here, I had been thrilled to see and photograph a bobcat hunting near a car parked at my house. This time, the bobcat was even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-point-reyes-station","category-west-marin-nature","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}