TMNCPC blogmaster Paula Dittrick condensed Terri Hurley article from June 30 Coastal Prairie Chapter Courier. Photos from Terri Hurley pond game camera.
Terri Hurley, TMNCPC Vice President, discovered photos of a bobcat on the prowl during May in her backyard pond along Oyster Creek. A motion-activated wild game camera focuses on the pond to see what happens while no one’s watching.
“Coyotes, raccoons, armadillos, skunks, possum, ring-tailed cats, feral hogs, deer, rats, mice and even bobcats have used the pond over the years. This is truly astonishing since we don’t live out in the country, but we are close to Cullinan Park,” Hurley said in an article that appeared in the June 30 Coastal Prairie Chapter Courier.
While going through files from the game camera, she found photographs showing “a little of the circle of life.” A series of 17 photos ends with the bobcat carrying a squirrel. “What excitement to see a story like this play out in my own backyard, during the day, and caught on camera!”
Bobcats (Lynx rufus) are distributed throughout the state, Texas Parks & Wildlife reports in its web page on bobcats. “These cats are highly adaptable, and in most places have been able to thrive in spite of increasing habitat loss due to human settlement.”