Keeping a Place for Vermont’s Bobcats
There in the snow was the track of a large bobcat. Groups of stalking tracks, hugging tight to cover provided by trees and woody shrubs, were interspersed with slow walking tracks, allowing us to “read” this wildcats’s stealthy stalk over 20 yards. Then, we could see that from a motionless crouch the bobcat jumped, ran, then jumped again to land upon the back of a bedded deer. Sign of a tremendous struggle was evident in the snow- including blood, hanks of deer hair and a torn piece of deer tail- but the unlucky cat must have slipped backwards off the hind quarters. Departing tracks of predator and prey told of a brief chase over a mere 80 feet before they parted ways.
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