Very nice! I see them here (Kansas), on a trail past my house, but as long as my large, vicious (or so she thinks) dog is still with me, I will not have shots like yours. Thanks for sharing a delightful story with your wonderful shots. (And no, I can't think of anything strange about shooting many, many photos of such a magnificent subject.)
Great photos. Were they all taken with the 14b extension? How far was the bobcat from the camera? I ask because I am interested in an extension for my own camera.
great photos of cool cat.
How wonderful for you. What a beautiful cat. Love the photos! Not crazy at all to take 100 shots - as you said, how could you not? People in the Tucson foothills frequently take photos of bobcats visiting their patios, but I've only seen one in the wild: at Honeymoon Campground, Arizona. As we broke camp early one morning, we looked up at the 15-foot cliff behind our tent and a handsome bobcat was sitting looking down in pretty much the same position as your last photo - quietly waiting for us to vacate his territory.
I'm sad for you that the field will soon disappear. Ah progress ...
These are very exciting photos. This little bobcat looks as interested in you as you in him/her. How wonderful that it hung around long enough for you to get such stupendous photos! Wowie!
Love the photographs RD, DPR. (Enjoyed those of the eagles as well.) I am reminded of the paw prints in the snow.
Is that the bobcats coat? I keep looking for something that could be casting a shadow. (The markings in "bobcat hunting" has me thinking tabby cat.)
Does the dark coat indicate the young versus the adult/full-grown?
Wow!! What wonderful photos! That cat was gorgeous. I do envy you your spot in this world. How perfect - to be surrounded by nature. My hubby and I are trying to set up just such a retirement spot for ourselves. Marvelous!
I feel for your up coming loss. The wooded lot across from us was bulldozed and condo's are in full construction right now. During the summer it was full of magpie's and winter it had waxwings or chickadee's and a great horned owl visiting from time to time. No more. Good view with a large concrete condo in the middle now. ARGH!
Whooo whooo!! What a handsome fella! And such a fine series of photos - glad you were able to take them. Congratulations!
Holy crap! 
I can't believe that bobcat was so accomodating! Man oh man what fun.
Excellent pics!
We put so much pressure on nature.
... and you know what happens when you upset Mother Nature!
Great encounter indeed! It looks so cute that I would squish it but it would tare me to shreds.
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Effing awesome! I can't believe the bobcat just sat there. Wow!
The eyes in that last photo look kind of like the kitty's really an alien. Or possessed by evil spirits or something. Maybe he/she will put a hex on the land so it can't be developed.
You need to find a protected species living in your area to that the development stops; each beauty you document is living on borrowed time if those houses keep going up. (I'm gloomy, I know. Sorry!)
I track them and take photos of their ca-ca; you get to take 100 photos of the Cat Itself. Somehow it seems fair.
Is it crazy to take 100 photos of one wild cat?
Insane. But I would likely have done the same thing. When will that bobcat lose his/her innocence? When will he/she lose the habitat? From what you say, it won't be long.
What a gift to get to see this guy!
Living in NM, I collect Zuni fetishes. A zuni carving represents the spirit of the animal. According to native custom, the spirit of an animal can help solve a problem. Or a fetish might be carried when the power of the animal is needed to accomplish a task (good crops, a hunt, etc.)
Zuni characteristics attributed to bobcat/lynx--
"The knower of secrets, clairvoyant, the ability to see the future"
Perhaps the bobcat visited you for a reason! 
How sad that your neighboring field will be developed. I hate to see these gorgeous animals getting crowded out.
This story reminds me of a piece in the Boston globule this morning about hunting in Texas. It used to be Bubba's main hobby, but so much of the open public land has disappeared that now you have to be in the upper crust and either own your own ranch, or know somebody who does, or else pay a thousand dollars a day or more. It's become the Texas equivalent of, say, windsurfing. Whaddya know.
we should clarify---we live on a short, dead end road. there are 2 5 acre lots across the road from us w/o houses. they can't be divided and can only have one residence each, so we aren't going to have condos or even multiple houses.
all the pics are of the same animal and it does look like a tabby in some.
i think that the second, third, and last were taken with the tele extension, which weighs more than the camera.
windsurfing gear may be expensive, but i think the ocean is still free.
that is so totally cool!!! what a delicious treat for you. i would give up food for an encounter like yours ANYTIME! i've never seen a bobcat in the wild (or at least i haven't yet) - but last spring was my first wild mountain lion sighting, so i haven't give up hope. wonderful! beautiful!
windsurfing gear may be expensive, but i think the ocean is still free.
That'll be the next privatization initiative.
We have bobcats up here. These picture are super.
ah! what a perfect cat. I've never seen one live, just pictures, but the immediacy of yours about makes up for that.
any chance y'all & your neighbors could buy that land between your homes? it must be something you've thought of as a way to keep that "progress" aphorism at bay.
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I looked up the bobcat on Wikipedia, and the size is given as between 10-12 inches in height, but nothing as to length. You said yours might be a youngster, since it was so unafraid of humans. How big is it in relation to a house cat? I know they come in varying sizes too, but just some idea, as I have never seen one. My son thinks he may have seen one at some distance in the swampy woods near us. They are around this area, because others have had a clearer view.
Gorgeous cat, doomed by the "ownership society." Great photos.
Those eyes, my oh my.
Mewow!
Stupid sprawl. I'm reading Bruce Babbitt's "Cities in the Wildreness" right now - all about how to form coalitions to protect wildreness areas and combat sprawl. He envisions the feds playing a large role in land conservation and sprawl prevention - heh, not til we get some Dems with balls in there. But part of the idea is coalition with historic preservation groups and hunters, even ranchers, to do proper land management and watershed protection. It's an interesting read, and I'm getting lots of ideas from it.
Find some folks to work with and protect your beautiful area. And your beautiful bobcats!
what a wonderful experience- one I had myself as a young bobcat came within range and allowed me to take photos for 1/2 hour. "Your" cat definitely has the markings of a young one- probably being driven out of the parents territory as it's mating season.
As adults, they're incredibly smart and usually bolt at the mere smell of a human. Beautiful, wonderful, mysterious animals that we know so little about- and some things should stay that way.
only a hundred photos? you must have run out of memory. i take dozens upon dozens of photos of the wild turkeys that hang out in my yard, fly to the roof, eat from the deck, etc. i can't get enough.
how very fortunate you are to have had the time and opportunity to observe the cat.
WOWOWOW! Great pics. I hope to see some fabulous wildlife here soon. I have seen a coyote up close and personal, many deer, some elk, and some raccoons, but that is about it. Last year I kept looking for a bear who was sighted 2 miles from my house, but never saw him!
Great photos. You are so lucky to have a bobcat roaming around. I would have taken a whole bunch of photos, too. Unfortunately, progress will probably move the bobcats away, to what wilderness they can find.
Wow! I've spent a lot of time in the mountains around here and have seen sign and track -- sometimes quite fresh -- but never managed to actually see a mountain lion. Makes me think you are right that this was a young one. Beauuutiful shots, a pleasure to see.
I've been wondering about the rate of development and the fearlessness or fearfulness of wild animals; e.g., bobcats.
We have a moderate population density, but one which is distributed so that most people are in a few places concentrated amidst largely unused or at least unoccupied pasture or woods. This gives the cats an out - they may retire to secluded areas, of which there are many. I wonder if for this reason bobcats here might be particularly shy, not having a requirement to get used to development.
That would be in contrast to an area where development is fairly rapid and fairly uniform, so that the cats in the area either have to leave, die off, or get used to people, since they have no particular place to go except where they are.
such a beautiful cat!
Such a beautiful animal!!
my my what a gorgeous beast. i could've sat and watched it all the day long. Lucky youse guys.
Stunning photos! I'm told bobcats are plentiful in our area, but I've not had the privilege of spotting one yet. Might have something to do with the 4 farmcollies who walk with me.
very cool shots, although 100 is a little excessive i love that in many parts of the country, wildlife seems to be returning with the forests. camping seems more dangerous out east here with bears and such, but it's wonderful to see ecosystems working
In Western New York, they routinely turn forest into new housing developments even though the population is declining...
Then, after the houses have been occupied for about a year or two, you start to read articles about residents complaining that the deer and other animals are "encroaching" on the neighborhood, making driving hazardous.
The ANIMALS are encroaching. yeah, right.
That was just too cool. So glad you had your camera. Great photos. It does look young to me, too, but maybe it is a different type of bobcat than the ones I've seen here in southern Missouri.
I hope it scared the potential land buyers away! Thanks for sharing. : )
That is the most beautiful cat I've ever seen.
Wow.
YES! (punching the air with excitement and enthusiasm). Wonderful bobcat post! Thank you.
Wow! and Holy Crap! and Amazing!
What a wonderful experience. I'm jealous!
Wow. What an experience for you! We ourselves have seen one on our very driveway late one night. Must have been hunting rabbits in the brushpile. I scared it off coming home one night, driving up the driveway. Thanks for skipping breakfast!
Is it crazy to take 100 photos of one wild cat?
No...It would have been crazy to take just one (I've been known to go thru a 256 Mbyte card (at 5 megapixels) on geese.).
They're stunning pictures, and I wish you had posted more.
This world needs your brand of "crazy".
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