bobcat

I live in the foothills where bear, bobcat and mountain lion sightings break up the tedium of coyote and raccoon encounters.

Predators such as bobcats may no longer be able to hunt for rodents and birds — tick hosts — in pocket parks or suburban landscapes.

When it’s completed, the crossing will help animals such as mountain lions, deer and bobcats pass safely over the freeway.

I’ve encountered a bobcat here and there, packs of coyotes and deer, but that was the first bear.

Renamed Wind Wolves, it is now the largest privately owned nature preserve on the West Coast, where endangered kit foxes and leopard lizards thrive along with elk, blacktail deer, great horned owls and bobcats.