common_nature | Bobcat Sighting in Allerton Park

A trail camera caught a bobcat at Allerton Park. :D This is a big sculpture park some distance from us; we've visited there a number of times. It has a river, and beavers, among other things.

A while back, I found a bobcat track on Grand Prairie Friends land, not far from my home. I think GPF is having a big impact. Over the years, they've racked up hundreds of acres. It started up near the Champaign-Urbana area but now the biggest pieces are more down here. For years, the local wildlife had been declining as habitat was cleared. But now I'm seeing signs of more and bigger wildlife -- the bobcats, for instance, and intermittent sightings of bald eagles. So that's really exciting.