There's a bobcat on campus.
Define campus? Not college. Work.
Big, giant, campus. Lots of people in lots of buildings doing some amazing research.
Since I started working here in 2014, I have seen two snapshots of the elusive bobcat taken by employees - one of which was taken behind my building! But I have never seen the actual creature itself.
Until today.
Granted, it was a brief glimpse, but enough to make me actually slap my hand across my mouth in total surprise!
I was on the main road coming up to the intersection where I would turn to go to my office building and I saw - on the far left corner - something streaking across the field toward the street.
Thought process: Too big, and far too fast, to be a groundhog. Too small to be a deer. What the heck am I seeing?
And then it burst through underneath the guard rail into the street, right in front of me, and zipped across into the woods on the other side. Total visual time? Approximately 40 seconds.
Bobcat.
I actually, really and truly saw the bobcat.
Yes, I know there are going to be people out there who see bobcats far more often than I do, but they're not terribly common around here so for me, this was a big deal.
Granted, it didn't stop to let me see it's cute face, or pet it and hug it and squeeze it and name it George. But I saw it, and that's enough.
TTFN
JMS
Define campus? Not college. Work.
Big, giant, campus. Lots of people in lots of buildings doing some amazing research.
Since I started working here in 2014, I have seen two snapshots of the elusive bobcat taken by employees - one of which was taken behind my building! But I have never seen the actual creature itself.
Until today.
Granted, it was a brief glimpse, but enough to make me actually slap my hand across my mouth in total surprise!
I was on the main road coming up to the intersection where I would turn to go to my office building and I saw - on the far left corner - something streaking across the field toward the street.
Thought process: Too big, and far too fast, to be a groundhog. Too small to be a deer. What the heck am I seeing?
And then it burst through underneath the guard rail into the street, right in front of me, and zipped across into the woods on the other side. Total visual time? Approximately 40 seconds.
Bobcat.
I actually, really and truly saw the bobcat.
Yes, I know there are going to be people out there who see bobcats far more often than I do, but they're not terribly common around here so for me, this was a big deal.
Granted, it didn't stop to let me see it's cute face, or pet it and hug it and squeeze it and name it George. But I saw it, and that's enough.
TTFN
JMS
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