Update: Now with Video (scroll down)
EDIT: I might have fooled myself. Going to leave the OP as I typed it, but scroll down the thread to see how I may have blown it.
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For some context, I live in a typical small town neighborhood. Anyone who's been to the Panhandle-Plains Museum in Canyon, I'm a few blocks east and a little south of there. Also southwest of the new WTAMU event center. Houses all around, but it's only about 4-5 blocks to open space along Tierra Blanca Creek, a branch of Palo Duro Creek, which runs into the Palo Duro Canyon, starting about 2-3 miles from my house.
So I've had a game cam out on the farm for a while. Partially to catch thieves, partially to see what animals come by. I might post some of those later. But a neighbor told me that he had seen some grey fox in our neighborhood. No surprise there, they're pretty common. And he also told me a bobcat came through his yard. I was a lot more skeptical of that one. I've seen exactly one bobcat in the wild since I moved here in 1994, and that was near our farm, a good 7 miles from town, and a mile off Tierra Blanca.
So I set up a water bowl in the back yard, and set up the game cam. Got lots of birds, which I suspected. Got lots of neighborhood cats. One was fat and yellow, I thought he might be our "bobcat". But finally I caught the fox...or the pair of foxes as it turned out.
But last night, I did manage to catch the bobcat, to my surprise.
Although I'll be darned if it doesn't look like he's wearing a collar here.
EDIT: I might have fooled myself. Going to leave the OP as I typed it, but scroll down the thread to see how I may have blown it.
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For some context, I live in a typical small town neighborhood. Anyone who's been to the Panhandle-Plains Museum in Canyon, I'm a few blocks east and a little south of there. Also southwest of the new WTAMU event center. Houses all around, but it's only about 4-5 blocks to open space along Tierra Blanca Creek, a branch of Palo Duro Creek, which runs into the Palo Duro Canyon, starting about 2-3 miles from my house.
So I've had a game cam out on the farm for a while. Partially to catch thieves, partially to see what animals come by. I might post some of those later. But a neighbor told me that he had seen some grey fox in our neighborhood. No surprise there, they're pretty common. And he also told me a bobcat came through his yard. I was a lot more skeptical of that one. I've seen exactly one bobcat in the wild since I moved here in 1994, and that was near our farm, a good 7 miles from town, and a mile off Tierra Blanca.
So I set up a water bowl in the back yard, and set up the game cam. Got lots of birds, which I suspected. Got lots of neighborhood cats. One was fat and yellow, I thought he might be our "bobcat". But finally I caught the fox...or the pair of foxes as it turned out.
But last night, I did manage to catch the bobcat, to my surprise.
Although I'll be darned if it doesn't look like he's wearing a collar here.
