by Keith Stutzman | Dec 1, 2022 | 2022, 12 December, Articles & Stories, Mammals
View the December 2022 Nature Friend Magazine Bobcat. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. The sun wasn’t up yet, but there were streaks of pink in the east. As I sat on a small bluff overlooking a field, a few deer and even several wary coyotes wandered past in the field below.As...
by Matthias Ostrowski, 13 | Feb 1, 2022 | 2022, 02 February, Articles & Stories, Contest, Mammals
Bobcat. Photo © iStock.com. Tracker, the Bobcat, prowled through the woods. Yellow sunlight streamed through bare branches in the forest. Mist stuck to his pelt. Pangs of hunger stung his stomach like a wasp. It was getting to be late February, and he needed food—and...
by Kevin Shank | Feb 1, 2022 | 2022, 02 February, Covers, Mammals
by Liam Beheler, 12 | Oct 22, 2021 | 2021, 10 October Bonus Reader's Issue, Articles & Stories, Birds, Gamebirds, Learning By Doing, Mammals
Elusive, secretive, camouflaged. This perfectly describes the bobcat, one of North America’s smallest wildcats. My first glimpse of a bobcat was from my deer stand one chilly October evening, ten minutes before dark. A shadow trotted up the hill along gurgling Little...
by Lovonna Beachy, 16, Canton, PA | Apr 15, 2021 | 2021, 05, May Story Contest, Articles & Stories, Contest, Mammals
On an unexpectedly cool afternoon, my brothers and I were biking over to a friend’s house. Crossing the creek, my brother exclaimed. “A deer! No, a coyote!” Bobcat. Photo © Chris Lorenz/Dreamstime.com. We whirled around to get a better look at the creature. A gaunt...
by Geoffrey Kuchera and Piotr Zajda | Apr 3, 2021 | 2021, 01, January, Covers
Bobcat in snow. Photo © Geoffrey Kuchera/Dreamstime.com. Back Cover Cation This Mule Deer. Photo © Piotr Zajda/Dreamstime.com.