Wild Animals

One morning a few years ago I was sitting at the kitchen table having my breakfast cup of coffee and working my crossword puzzle when out of the corner of my eye I saw a movement. I raised and turned my head to see a bobcat walking by in front of the sliding glass door, within 6 feet of where I was sitting. I thought there is no one on earth that will believe me if I tell them this story, so I had better take a picture of it. Naturally I could not find the camera, and after I did find it, it was out of film. By the time I got outside with a loaded camera the bobcat was nowhere to be seen.

Several days later I went to lunch with my neighbor Bill Ricker and related the story to him. To my surprise, Bill said he had seen the cat outside his family room a few days before.

I forgot about the incident until several weeks later, when Bill and I went to lunch together again. When I drove into the carport at my home I saw the cat lying on the brick wall surrounding the turtle yard. After pointing it out to Bill I found the camera on the kitchen counter and snapped this picture of the cat happily resting on the wall. I saw the cat one more time after that but was unable to get another photo.

The javelina shown in these photos were spotted just outside the brick wall of one of the courtyards at our Tucson home.