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Bobcats are found throughout much of the continental US, even in fairly urbanized areas, but are usually secretive, nocturnal, and shy. These pictures include captive animals photographed at the Living Desert Reserve, near Palm Desert, California and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum near Tucson. An exception to the 'nocturnal and shy' rule occurs every so often: I photographed the wild female -- the grayish animal in most of these images -- in broad daylight in an open area on my University of California campus. She was extremely relaxed, despite dozens of passers-by stopping to gawk, point, call their friends, shoot pictures on cell phones, etc. I had enough time to walk back to my office, collect camera gear, and return (which took 15 minutes), and then take upwards of 100 photographs. The adult male bobcat at bottom right was photographed from my car, besides busy Highway 1 just north of Big Sur, California. The mother and large kitten (unfortunately slightly out of focus due to intervening grass blades and very little time to compose and shoot) were at Bosque del Apache refuge in New Mexico. |
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