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Nighthiker
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1714
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Posted: 1/19/2005, 6:41 pm Post subject: bobcat and mule deer |
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Hiked out from First Water trailhead (Garden Valley loop) laid down to take a nap, woke up and a bobcat was sitting on a rock outcropping about twenty feet away basking in the sun. I ate lunch while the bobcat observed me and left . The bobcat got up and laid back down after I started to walk away. As I cleared a ridge on the way back (just west of Hackberry Springs) I observed four mule deer, buck (4 point) and three does (I got it right this time) grazing below me. I spent about a half hour watching them before the evaporated into the brush. |
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Sande J Calamity J
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 725 Location: Mesa, AZ
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Posted: 1/19/2005, 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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That is very cool!!...the wildlife in the Supes are enjoying out there as much as we are.
thought you may enjoy this little tidbit on the bobcat from some writings I have...
Bobcat is a solitary animal and those who come in contact with it often possess the same trait.
Bobcat eyes are able to see what is hidden and their ears demonstrate
incredible clairaudience. These traits allow bobcat to be an excellent nightime hunter and mover. People who come in contact with it are most effective at night. (duh!)
Sounds like a match.
And to think it happened during the day!
SJ _________________ And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stone, good in everything..
-William Shakespeare- |
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Trishness The Snake Charmer
Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 2530 Location: Apache Jct, AZ
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Posted: 1/19/2005, 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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Awsome sightings Nighthiker!
_________________ ~~~Trish~~~
"Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains." � J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings. |
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Arizonaheat Got Supes Juice?
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1741 Location: Mesa, AZ
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Posted: 1/19/2005, 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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Nighthiker that Bobcat stuff does sound like you. I appreciate the way you have with animals, it is a gift, cherish it, they don't come to everyone. _________________ Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. |
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JW I'll make rain with my spaceman powers!
Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 1296
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Posted: 1/19/2005, 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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Sande J wrote: |
Bobcat eyes are able to see what is hidden...
SJ |
You don't forget those yellow eyes. _________________ What a magnificent time to LIVE! - Everett Ruess.
Since my house burned down, I now own a better view of the rising moon. - Masahide. |
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mike What box?
Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 3134
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Posted: 1/19/2005, 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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JW, Hikngrl & I found a couple of bobcat tracks out there last week. They looked fairly fresh. It would've been cool to see the critter. I used to hear them screaming at night when I lived at the foot of Signal Mountain in Chattanooga, TN. _________________ [/size] |
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BoyNhisDog The dangerous place where the winds meet
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1375 Location: Tucson
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Posted: 1/20/2005, 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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That is beyond cool Nighthiker. You see more wildlife on your journeys. That is amazing how it sort of hung out with you there. _________________ Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys
- Andre Gide |
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