This is a bobcat photographed with a motion detecting camera 12/01/2004 11:06PM. The picture or me checking on the camera was taken at 7PM the same night. I never would have guessed I would get a photo of a bobcat. There is an animal burrow just to the right of where I'm standing in the photo. 

This deer is stepping over a log 23 feet from the camera position; the cat appears to be stepping over the same log. The cluster of oak leaves to the left, between the camera and the cat, is 14 feet away; the cluster of gum leaves to the right is 19 feet away; the vine in the forground is 3 feet away. The vine is the same one in the bobcat picture. Unless there is some optical trick involving the cat jumping through the air so it appears further away than it really is, this cat is nearly as large as the deer. The two pictures were taken 12/2/2004 at 1PM and 3:20PM; the camera didn't move. I'm going to take more pictures from the same location with the same camera including a scale.

Here I'm retrieving one of the wildlife cameras.


These racoons appear demon posessed. Their eyes reflect light from the flash directly back into the camera lens, like a mirror. 

This is me setting up a second camera on a post stuck into a fire ant bed. The camera fell over between 7PM and 11PM when the two top photos were made. Oops. I set out deer corn and cat food to attract whatever might pass by.

These possums were taking the first couple of nights I was experimenting with the camera. There are different possums that come by during the night to eat the food the cats leave.

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