DK
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canonclicker wrote:
DK, go to <trailcamprop.com> and get a trail camera. I have a Browning Strike Force Pro XD for under $200. Now I get my first bobcats, fox, coyotes, birds, and cougar. When you know when and where it makes it a lot easier.
I also have a Moultrie 9991 that I bought in 2016. I don't like it as much as the Browning.
Go to my page on trail cameras - 2016 - Moultrie 999i trail camera - and you'll see other trail camera photos. These are to help find animals to take with my Canon and Lumix cameras.
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I have a trail cam, but it is so rare to see one and never in the same place. Usually miles from where I saw another one, it would be difficult to know where to put it. Thanks for the info though. We use them for deer frequently.
gwr wrote:
What a beautiful animal. I'm glad you finally spotted one in the daylight. Too bad you had to deal with the ugly human though. Gary
Those humans can be so disruptive. It reminds me of the time we spotted an elk herd in Olympic National Park. My wife was driving and pulled over so I could get out and take some pictures. I had taken a couple and carefully stepped around a stand of bushes where I was surprised to see the real herd of hundreds of elk. As I was getting set up, I heard a car come screeching to a halt and kids spilled out of it yelling, " Deer! Deer! Look at the deer!" and slamming the car doors. That gave me a vision of hundreds of elk butts as the herd instantly turned away from the noise and walked swiftly out of the meadow.
Different subject. Nice shots of a truly unusual encounter. I have only seen one bobcat in the wild, when I was about 10. I envy you.
Love the subject, Very nice shots.
10MPlayer wrote:
I have heard there is a mom bobcat at the golf course where I often play. I haven't had the chance to see her yet. They are very elusive animals. Congrats on the captures. Too bad about the woman getting in the way. It looks like it would have been a keeper.
I saw one at Darkhorse up near Auburn once while playing there. Didn't have a chance to get my camera out before it was gone.
Excellent set phantom and sorry about the incident but some people appear to be clueless and others seem to think only about themselves, but congrats on this one that you will always remember!
Good catch on a very elusive animal
Lynx, but I am afraid that they have the ability to become invisible at will. It is a never ending exercise though. Even tho i have pix of just about everything else in North America (except musk ox) many of the pix i have of other animals could be better, so I will keep busy trying for better pix of those animals.
Thanks for your comments and thanks to everyone else who commented. I appreciate it.
Thanks to everyone who commented and empathized with my disappoint in the inconsiderate woman. Some folks correctly mentioned that they were glad that I was lucky to get the shots that I did. So true, but luck works both ways as i found about a couple of years ago.
I was hiking in a wilderness area and entered a fairly large meadow. There were people about a hundred yards away excitedly waving to me, so I politely waved back. They continued to wave so I waved again. Finally I realized they were pointing behind me. (I can be pretty astute at times). I turned and in a corner of the meadow there was a cow moose and calf about 60 yards away. I grabbed the camera, turned it on and yep, you guessed it, the battery was dead. i had replaced the battery at the trailhead but apparently put the dead battery back into the camera instead of the fresh one. So, as they say, I would rather be lucky than good.
The wait was definitely worth it. Great set. Mahalo for sharing.
fantom wrote:
I was walking along a well traveled trail next to a partially frozen creek and spotted a bobcat crossing the trail into the brush next to the stream. In 50 years of living here, this is the first bobcat I have ever seen during the day. I've seen them at nite on rare occasions but this is the first one that was photographical. Though they appear to be losing their fear of man they are still pretty rare around here.
I quietly followed along the trail for about 10 minutes but it was hard to get a decent shot becuz the bobcat blends into the brush so well. It was moving along the creek bed towards an opening in the brush and I moved to that spot. A man came by and saw me kneeling with my camera and he pulled out his phone and began shoot some pix. I knelt on the edge of the trail and was waiting for the bobcat to reach the break in the brush.
Just as the cat was no longer hidden by the brush I heard the guy whisper to someone to please stop for a minute so this guy can get a picture. I heard a loud female snarl, which I can't repeat here, and some woman moved directly between me and the bobcat just as I shot the picture. I thought I had the pic so I did not admonish her elitist, inconsiderate, rudeness, in fact I never even saw her as I kept shooting. As you can see from the pic I am posting, it probably would have been a great shot after cropping. Look behind the front of her arm, cat is partially visible there.
I was eventually able to get some better shots and I am including a few, so, all in all, I was happy to get the shots I did and I know about where she is living now.
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Well congratulation's very nice series thanks for sharing the thrill! Great shots under the circumstances.
Wow, what great shots! Any info on the camera, settings, and lens? After shooting the bobcat, did you shoot the woman?
Terrific shots. Well worth waiting 50 years. And I bow to your restraint with the inconsiderate boob.
ron
Congratulations I got my first Bobcat shot last year and I was so nervous when I photed the cat. It posed for me on a granite rock for 5-10 in full site of me and my truck.
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