This is not the actual bobcat I saw in my yard last night but one very similar. One main difference was that the one in my yard had it's head up and was just strutting along! Not watchful like the one in the photo.
Here is how it went. I was sitting at the table in the yard, toward the back under a large oak tree, it was just starting to getting sun setty. I am facing the south line of the property toward a small chain link fence with a flower bed I planted all along it. I am maybe 15 ' from the fence. I am reading. Something catches my eye.
I look up and this big, huge, gigantic cat is right in front of me and calmly walking down the south property line between me and the flowers, down the lawn, toward the back. He never looks at me or gives any indication that he knows I am there. I panic inside but know to keep still.
Once he has walked deep into the empty lot behind us - I run into the house.
I was terrified. It was not rational. It was primal.
He was so huge, so close and so calm, he owned the place, not me.
When they said that there was a lot of wildlife here in Florida, I did not think they meant my yard.
