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Shot of the male Bobcat at Northwest Trek drinking from the stream. I really enjoy Northwest Trek, the enclosure settings are quite natural looking (they should be, for many of the enclosures they pretty much just picked a spot in the woods and put up a fence) and you can get some really nice photos.
I showed up early on a Sunday morning, and this fellow was quite active. He came down to the stream to get a drink and I shot like mad. I'm pretty happy with how this one came out.
It was a dull grey day today, so the photo in general has some adjustments done. Contrast bumped, saturation, white balance tweaked a bit, etc. However, the reflection is straight out of camera, nothing was done to it that wasn't done to the entire image. The dark water and the shade did me one favor, and created really nice reflections.
Good shots of the bobcat. It appears to be very well fed compared to shots I have seen of ones in the wild taken in the mountains of the South Bay area of California. The hot, dry climate of that area may also account for the thinner bodies of the local bobcats. Bobcats up here need a chunkier, heavier body to get through our colder, wetter winters.
I am always amazed at how little difference there is in appearance and behavior between a wild cat and my pet tabby cats. There is an old saying, "A house cat is domesticated until its paws touch grass."
Good shots of the bobcat. It appears to be very well fed compared to shots I have seen of ones in the wild taken in the mountains of the South Bay area of California. The hot, dry climate of that area may also account for the thinner bodies of the local bobcats. Bobcats up here need a chunkier, heavier body to get through our colder, wetter winters.
I am always amazed at how little difference there is in appearance and behavior between a wild cat and my pet tabby cats. There is an old saying, "A house cat is domesticated until its paws touch grass."
We were commenting on how much he looks like a house cat, and yes, he's obviously well fed. He's pretty active, there's a female there as well, but she spent most of her time perched up in a tree, looking even more like a housecat.
Later this fellow something in a hole in a log, possibly catnip, I have no idea, and rolled around and dug at it and played and really looked like a big kitty.
