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  • About The Ryland Creek Novels
    • Book I: The Last Coon Hunter
    • Book II: An Exceptional Hound
    • Book III: The Legends of Ryland Creek
    • Book IV: The Master of Hounds
    • Book V: The Forest Ghost
    • Book VI: The Time of the Backroads (Coming Fall 2022)
  • Buy Ryland Creek: Books
    • Ryland Creek Saga: Print Books
  • Blog: In a place called Painted Post
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  • Meet the Author:Joseph Gary Crance
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    • A.V. Rogers
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    • Dutch Van Alstin
    • Glenn Sapir
    • Judy Janowski
    • Michelle Pointis Burns
Ryland Creek

Finally. . .

9/27/2020

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PictureA bobcat in the forests of Painted Post.
​Hi Folks,

The game of cat and mouse appears to be over. . . .
​
Picture 1. The critter I’ve been trying to capture on camera since April: a bobcat on a nighttime prowl. Two outdoor folks whom I highly respect (Ernie Stephens and Stephen George) independently reached the same conclusion: this does appear to be a bobcat based on its ears and shape of its head.



​I knew it haunted this forest* from its tracks left in the snow the previous winter.

It knew I knew it was there.
​
I knew it knew that I knew it knew . . .

​Well, you get the point.

New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation labels the bobcat as more common than most realize but likewise extremely elusive and rarely seen. (Concur.)

*And it could be that this feline is now only just returning to these woods. See the article from American Expedition that puts a male bobcat's territory at 30 square miles; a female's territory is smaller but still an impressive 5 square miles. 

PictureA wild turkey.
Picture 2: a potential Thanksgiving dinner not yet ready to yield: a wild turkey making a quick appearance.

​

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Appreciate thhis blog post

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