After a few months away from this location, I recently returned and reset a trail camera pointing at the small seep-filled pool. Since it has been so dry, despite some monsoon rains, I was hoping this spot would attract wildlife like it had in previous years. This morning I checked the camera and as it turns out, just yesterday there was a fun visit by a sow and her cub. Notice in the first clip of them, the mother bear pulls her cub into the water, encouraging her to swim.
Month: August 2023
Bobcat Catches Fawn
Sensitive content! I did not expect to see this when I checked a couple cameras this morning. While I’ve found several old mountain lion kills based on the surrounding evidence, I’ve never seen anything that I suspected was a bobcat kill. This trail cam capture surprised me because I was not expecting anything like this would be captured by the trail cams, even after years of watching thousands of trail cam videos of deer and other wildlife doing their thing. I’ve reluctantly watched it a few times because while nature is beautiful, she is also brutal. The fawn and her mother are going about their daily business, eating, drinking water… Then in seconds, for the fawn, death appears in the form of a bobcat. Seemingly out of nowhere. Despite our big brain and intelligence, we humans are no different than the fawn. Death is the great equalizer, it can strike us anywhere, anytime.
A bear cub, deer fawns, and ring-tailed cats
This morning I checked a series of trail cams I’ve set up at water sources in a drainage in the mountainous desert near Tucson. These spots have, usually, held water throughout the hot dry season before monsoon rains are due. This year the monsoon rains have been few and far between in this area so these water sources have been a very important resource for local wildlife.
More Mountain Lion Action
This location, it turns out, is not just a random mountain lion scrape, but a latrine where several mountain lions (at least two, maybe three), regularly check scents and mark their presence. The latest was this big male mountain lion.
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