Another Bobcat in the Yard

I should know better than to just ignore Pan when I see he’s staring out the window.  The second time I walked by I stopped to look and… oh, hey!  There’s another bobcat – and it’s in the front yard this time!  Or maybe it’s the same one I keep seeing in the open space behind my house.  Anyway, by the time I ran upstairs to get the camera, he was following the driveway out of the front yard, but not before stopping to mark his territory.  It was dusk and getting dark, but I boosted the video a bit:

 

I went outside to say hi but he wasn’t interested in chatting.  Presumably he’s looking for the rabbits I sometimes see – or maybe the field mice that escape Pan’s fenced off domain.  I followed him down the driveway a bit, scaring off the deer, before he disappeared into the brush.

 

Bobcat in the Yard

… that is, until a buck drove him off.  No, really!

I was just letting Hera and Pan out when I see…. oh, a bobcat. Huh. No guys, back inside. No, I mean it. Hey, Hera… come back here — no, I don’t think he would be a good friend for you…

And then I see the young buck. Huh. The buck is facing the bobcat down, making him back away. And he continues to drive him off and down the dirt road, out of sight.

Sorry Pan, sorry Hera, gotta go and you’re staying inside today!

Yeah, yeah… the fence/cat enclosure around the porch is due to go up in a few weeks. Hey, good thing I’ve got guard deer though in the meantime, eh?