Baby Bobcats
There are now baby bobcats.
No kidding.
My neighbor, who's lost over 20 chicks these last couple of weeks to the same bobcat who dined on my lovely, plump geese, has seen the whole family each morning around 4AM, he says. He's the breakfast buffet, apparently.
He's seen a little black bear too. Regularly.
We're going to have to do the six strands of electric fence around the bee hives, no doubt. A bear doesn't just open up the top of your hive and scoop up some honey for a little snack. He smashes your hives to smithereens.
I often wonder if my horses are on speaking terms with bobcats and bears? Do bobcats and black bears stroll nonchalantly through the property in the middle of the night?
I suspect they do.
Maybe with the rain yesterday and today, we'll see some tracks.
Comments
Kimberly, you do need to protect your beehives. Bears can climb, swim, dig, and tear things apart. I hope that a good electric fence keeps them out.
My horses saw brown bears (which are largely vegetarian) and weren't overly concerned as long as they had space to keep their distance. They were less happy with wolves, which are predators and did once attack the herd (giving superficial wounds to a foal, and no doubt being kicked into retreat by the herd). I guess that, unless foals were present, horses wouldn't pay much attantion to Bobcats.
Posted by: Transylvanianhorseman | May 16, 2008 2:52 AM
Bears and bobcats!?! And here I've been complaining because my dog is digging up the rosebushes to get at the bone meal.
We had to put electric wires around the rose bushes. The dog is easily discouraged. I doubt the same could be said for bear.
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Posted by: Anne | May 21, 2008 3:28 PM