How I find and Photograph Bobcats. My method for photographing this extremely elusive species of cat
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 พ.ค. 2022
- How do you find and photograph elusive wildlife? How can you get closer to wildlife? These are two questions that I frequently ask myself, especially in regards to species like the Bobcat. Finding and photographing Bobcats is no easy task. There's no magical method to it and if it's something you'd like to do, plan on spending a lot of time in the field without seeing anything! In this weeks video, I describe how I personally go about finding and photographing this beautiful, but elusive species of cat.
Over the years I've had the opportunity to photograph many Bobcats in many different habitats. In this video I'll show some of the different Bobcats I've seen, photographed and gotten some video footage of, I hope you enjoy!
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Fantastic footage! It took me ten years to finally get shots of a pair of bobcat’s. The wait was worth it.
Thanks! I'm glad you got your shot at it, and pair of cats, how cool! The wait is always worth it for these guys.
Very much enjoyed seeing these bobcats, Jimmy. Have seen a few of them through the years, and a few big cats also. Maybe someday I will get to photograph one.👍👍
Thank you Terry 😁 It's always a pleasant surprise to see one, I hope you're able to photograph some at some point in the future!
Thanks Jimmy, I enjoyed the video and can imagine the amount of effort that went into getting the bobcats on film. Well done👍
They're a tricky species for sure, but always worth the time and effort put into them!
Just keep getting better and better. Very informative info.
Thanks so much my friend, always appreciate your support 👍
I enjoyed this video and the bobcat footage. I appreciate your b roll snipets too which always add to our sense of environment. I have a bobcat on my property, which is heavily wooded in New England. I have seen them several times at random but no real way other than investing in a camera trapping set up though that I can think of to photograph it. Sitting in my blind will likely be a large investment of time with no payoff and its too thick to move and track it, although winter is obviously best to try that. Once again I am jealous of your more open country out west! Keep up the good work on the videos, I know they are a lot of effort!
Thanks so much, John! That's amazing that you have one on your property, I can only dream of stuff like that 😁 There are some pretty cool camera trap setups out there. Let me know if you get into that stuff at all, it's something I've thought about for years but haven't made the investment yet.
Great footage of this beautiful animal.
Thank you, they really are so pretty 😍
Unbelievable! That must have taken a lot of time and patience and obviously incredible skills. Thanks a lot for this excellent video.
Thanks so much! Yeah, countless days and weeks over the years have gone into finding these beautiful cats, always so much fun!
Great footage! Really nice to watch.
Thank you, I appreciate you watching!
Outstanding work Jimmy, and great advice. It took me seven years of scouting and I finally had the opportunity to photograph three Bobcats in 2022.
Wow, that's amazing, congratulations! 👏👏 Hope you got some fun images!
Great footage and photographs 😍🤩
Thank you, always appreciated!
Wonderful!!! What a "cat"!!! Thank for sharing, even though I'll never see it in my country, unfortunately
Thank you so much! I guess that means you'll just need to come visit over here sometime 😁
@@JimmyBreitenstein It should be great 😊
I love watching your videos to gleam any tips I can and also just to see those amazing creatures. There isn't as much diversity here in the Northeast.
Thanks for the feedback, always appreciated! I'm quite blessed to live where I do with access to many species within a reasonable drive from home 😁
Wow!! the video footage of the Bobcat is incredible. You never cease to amaze me with your images and video but also the incredible variety of critters that you are able to photograph. Thanks again for sharing and have a wonderful week!!
Thank you, Keith! They're splendid cats, I've dedicated countless days and weeks to searching for them over the years, always worth it though! Have a wonderful week 😊
We have the Lynx and they will cross the road and if you watch them they will stop at the tree line and admire you. Giving a picture... Beautiful Cats..
Wow, that sounds amazing 😁 That's a species I dream about photographing one day!
Great footages Jimmy. It is always a joy to watch your videos. Your warm and friendly narration makes me feel like we are all together in the same forest. Thanks.
Thanks so much 😁 That makes me so happy to hear, that's one of my main goals with these videos!
For me - bobcat or lynx skill level needed is in the range of near impossible to impossible. Great footage and huge respect!
I've definitely put in a lot of time searching for them over the years, such fun animals! I appreciate the kind words 😊
Amazing video as always! I've had the chance to photograph them twice and it was just by mere chance both just popped out of nowhere, thankfully I had my camera by my side ready to go such beautiful cats!!
That's awesome, sounds like you're doing it right! Most people wouldn't have been ready so great job!
Impressing animal and footages.
Thanks very much!
Awesome video! I enjoyed it very much. I've had a few encounters with Bob Cats here in the Florida panhandle. My most incredible encounter was when I was on a motorboat with family on a small river and one launched itself from the riverbank into the river ahead of us. It swam across the river, got out and trotted off on the other side. It was totally unexpected and not something I was looking for, but I managed to get a good enough picture of it in the river to tell what it was.
That's an area I've always wanted to explore for them, I hear there's a good amount of them there. Wow, that's sounds like quite the experience, must have been quite the sight to see!
That’s awesome
Thanks for watching 😁
The very first time I went hunting I was sitting under a tree, and I hear this crunching noise in the underbrush. What emerged from under the branches was a small bobcat.
I didn’t move, I didn’t say anything I just stared at him. He finally noticed me and looked quite surprised and took off in the other direction.
I didn’t get anything that day but that was still one of the best days of hunting I’ve ever had. Quite the beginner’s luck
That sounds like an awesome experience. I love being able to watch animals act naturally when they don't know you're there at all, always so much fun!
Beautiful footage and images of a stunning cat. Of the stills at the end of the video, I particularly liked the first image where the cat is pretty small in the frame. Of the closer images my favourite would be the shot with the ground squirrel / gopher (not sure of my ID there). I'd be delighted with any of the images to be honest.
Best wishes.
Thanks Robert, they're such fun animals to observe and photograph, always worth the effort that goes into them! It's a gopher that he caught, and a nice plump one at that 😁
Amazing. I got the chance to see one and photograph one by being at the right place at the right time (pure luck) and it was an amazing experience. Do you think that maybe they were not that shy with your presence (I assume they knew you where there) because they were hunting?
Thanks! That's usually how it works with these guys, right place, right time! I've found that some cats are just more tolerant than others. Most of the Bobcats I see are long gone before I'm remotely close, but others (those in the video) are more tolerant if you respect their space, approach very carefully and don't make noise. I've found it also helps a TON if you can find them in areas where trapping is rare or isn't allowed at all.
Beautiful ❤️
Thank you!
@@JimmyBreitenstein u r mostly wlcm sir u r a beautiful photographer keep it up ❤️