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“Bobcat Study”
Day 151 of my artwork retrospective
For this last Saturday in May, here’s a different sort of kitty for Caturday. I drew this bobcat quite some time ago, so I don’t recall why I added the paw, but I’m glad I did.
When I was living on the west coast of Florida in the 1990s, I saw a bobcat in our yard twice. Probably different animals, though. For one thing, the two sightings were several years apart, and for another, they just looked different. It’s been long enough that I can’t recall why I thought that, sorry! One was larger, I am sure of that. Was it a male? They are larger than the females.
Anyway, I was both happy each time to see this feline visitor go trotting through our yard, and relieved that we kept our four sibling kitties inside all the time. Behind our house was sort of a small forest, although it was only that pesky intrusive “Australian pine” which is neither a pine nor from the Land Down Under, but did provide total privacy from the house behind our. Then, on the undeveloped lot next to our property the vegetation was a thick mixture of native and non-native vegetation. Easy to imagine a bobcat not just slipping through but even nesting in there.
I also saw an occasional fox, a couple of otters romping through, and a covey of quail. Can’t forget to mention the gopher tortoises, often just eating their way across our yard…
