It was a bit of a cat and mouse game, although our roles were reversed. The bobcat played the role of mouse, and I was the cat.

I was out hiking, yesterday, and, while descending a hill, I saw some motion, in the distance. It was a bobcat, going up the hill I was coming down.

One of the reasons I love photographing bobcats is that they don't usually bolt, immediately. I can often persuade a bobcat to pose for me, for a little while. Sometimes, the cat wants to make me work for it. Yesterday was such a day.

There are a lot of pictures that accompany this tale, but most of them are looking at the south end of a northbound bobcat. The cat would periodically stop, and check up on me, as if to make sure I was still following her. I followed this cat for approximately one-half hour. I would occasionally lose her, but she'd make sure I found her, again. She did stop, and allowed me to take a lovely portrait, and then took off, again. I kept following until she finally went down a gorge that I just couldn't enter. It was a lot of fun.

It was a bit of a cat and mouse game, although our roles were reversed. The bobcat played the role of mouse, and I was the cat.

I was out hiking, yesterday, and, while descending a hill, I saw some motion, in the distance. It was a bobcat, going up the hill I was coming down.

One of the reasons I love photographing bobcats is that they don't usually bolt, immediately. I can often persuade a bobcat to pose for me, for a little while. Sometimes, the cat wants to make me work for it. Yesterday was such a day.

There are a lot of pictures that accompany this tale, but most of them are looking at the south end of a northbound bobcat. The cat would periodically stop, and check up on me, as if to make sure I was still following her. I followed this cat for approximately one-half hour. I would occasionally lose her, but she'd make sure I found her, again. She did stop, and allowed me to take a lovely portrait, and then took off, again. I kept following until she finally went down a gorge that I just couldn't enter. It was a lot of fun.