Los Linces Rojo
We saw the first one as we neared the head of Refugio Canyon, walking across the road and down into the brush. The kids missed it. We saw the second one at the foot of Cañada del Corral, only a stone's throw from US 101. This one the kids saw, to pleasing effect.
A day with two bobcats, one at the ridge line of the Santa Barbara mountains, the other at the bluffs above the sea's edge.
Comments
Pretty- can I officially hate you now? No seriously, my world has sunlight and I guess that has to be good enough for now, storm coming.
Posted by: Hawise | March 1, 2007 10:24 AM
Wow! Those guys never revealed themselves to me the whole time I lived and hiked in California, I'm envious.
Posted by: Kai | March 1, 2007 08:55 PM
Kai, we've been in Cali since September, and it's the first time we've seen them - and then, two in one day! The second one crossed the road right in front of us, at a very leisurely pace, so we really got a good look at him. Pretty awesome.
Posted by: MBW | March 2, 2007 09:32 AM
Admit it MB, what is really magnificent is seeing a Moose in Maine!
Posted by: Donna | March 3, 2007 11:34 AM
I think they are fairly common in Northern California. I've seen bobcats within sight of Stinson Beach on trails in the Marin Headlands and also at Point Reyes. What I've not seen, and don't want to as it wouldn't be healthy, are their big cousins.
Posted by: janinsanfran | March 3, 2007 10:07 PM
I don't know, Donna - I had plenty of moose wander down the railroad tracks into my part of town, so, not so exciting anymore ;-). You're just missing them, being in Moose-less land out there.
Eric and I always joke that you can tell if a road in northern New England is often travelled by non-local tourists by the number of skid marks in the immediate vicinity of "Moose Crossing" signs; locals understand that moose are extremely fixated on where they cross a particular road, and that the threat of being bumped by a large, mobile object is not incentive enough to change that behavior (hence the need for signs to warn humans, not moose.) The skidmarks are indicative of tourists who do not take seriously the potential for running into the largest land mammal in the Western Hemisphere.
Posted by: MBW | March 4, 2007 01:01 PM