Look who was being given a tour of my yard this morning by his/her parents….
After taking these pictures, I went out to explain to the deer that I’d really prefer if they would do their grazing on the other side of the wall but they didn’t stick around to listen to me.
Oh, there you are you little bastard! Caught this gopher in the act of digging another hole in my front yard:
Quick, somebody call Bill Murray, I mean… Carl the Groundskeeper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR0sWU1HzTE
Pan and Hera are my little wildlife spotters. I’ve got to go look whenever I see something has their attention. A couple of weeks after the previous bobcat visit, I notice Pan intensely watching something from the porch.
It’s another bobcat! Cool!
It’s clearly a different one from given the different markings along its side. And smaller too:
… 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?
