I looked ahead and spotted an animal in the trail ahead.
He was coming slowly towards us.
Stopping to look around...
and then hiding in the tall grass.
My husband kept walking and I wondered how he could keep going toward this wild critter.
So I caught up and he told me it was a cat!
A feral cat! In the vicinity of the baby Bobwhites!
So that was a first for us. We've heard about feral cat sightings on the preserve but we had never encountered one.
We also saw some beautiful deer on this hike at Halpata Tastanaki Preserve (Pruitt Trailhead).
We watched them run through the tall grasses and then they broke out and crossed the trail in front of us.
Aren't they beautiful!
Lots of bird sightings for the day too so I'll include one of them!
Great Crested Flycatcher
It's still hot but we are planning and plotting our hikes for later on when the weather breaks.
Enjoy your week!
Enjoy nature....the strange and the beautiful!
I've had so many people comment with their concern for the feral cat that I need to clarify a few things. I jumped to the conclusion that this was a feral cat. But there are 2 farms to the West of the preserve so it could be a farm cat. It still was very likely hunting for birds but it may have a home. It did not look underfed and it did not act wild. I hiked again today and saw the Bobwhites and heard even more in the grasses along the trail. So I just wanted to add this postscript.
