Resident Bobcat

This is one of several bobcats that live at Sweetwater wetlands Park in West Tucson Arizona. They are a fairly common site at the park, and are quite indifferent to the presence of people. Sweetwater is a series of ponds that are fed by treated wastewater from the city of Tucson. Apparently a large part of these cats diet consists of the water fowl that reside on the ponds. I have heard several first hand accounts of people that have seen these cats with coots and ducks that they have caught. Several years back I walked up to one of the viewing platforms on one of the ponds where there was a very excited couple. They told me that five minutes before I showed up a bobcat had jumped out from the reeds on the bank of the pond onto a duck and drug it back onshore and into the reeds.

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