These photos were taken in River Legacy Park (Arlington, TX) on Wednesday, 08Oct08 between 10:01 am and 10:09 am.  I was on the east trail walking south-south-west from mile-marker 5 about half way to mile-marker 4 (just before the trail turns westward).

The first picture (the wide shot) was one of the intial 2-3 pictures I took.  And I took it to purposefully demonstrate two things.  First, I wanted to show that I was not standing right on top of her.  My camera simply has a pretty good zoom function and makes it look that way.  And second, it would actually have been quite easy to walk right on by and not even notice her, even though she was lying only inches from the trail.  In the dappled sunlight, her camouflage was startlingly effective.  

She certainly didn't seem too concerned about me or my fellow-walker standing next to me at the time.  Even more surprising was her complete indifference to the bicycles whizzing by now and then.  Thankfully no one came by/through with any dogs though.  I somehow doubt she would have been quite so accepting of them. 

After "hanging about" for almost 9 minutes (from the time I had first walked up on her), our furry lady-friend decided that she had had enough and strode imperiously off into the brush.  On examining the "walking away" photo later, it also appears that she had been nursing cubs recently.

Comments

[jtlucy]

Got a brief glimpse of a bobcat this morning (11/20/2008), at about 11:30. Was driving toward the park exit gate on Green Oaks Blvd. Had just passed the road that goes around to the other side of the park, about 200 yards to the exit gate, when a very large bobcat speedily crossed the road about 20 yards in front of my car. I braked and looked to the right where the fence seperated the open land to the west, but it had evaporated. Appeared much larger than typical bobcat. Looked to be over two feet at shoulder, could have weighed more than 30 pounds.

[Bradley J Borougerdi]

I saw this same Bobcat on November 19th and posted a comment about it somewhere on the webpage. It is a truly amazing animal!