Three bobcats were spotted Tuesday in the Village of Pennecamp.
Ty Gieseman was able to capture an image of the bobcats with his cell phone.
Bobcat sightings in The Villages are not uncommon.
This past October, Diane Clemmons shot photos of a pair of bobcats in her backyard in the Village of Dunedin.
That same month, avid Villages shutterbug Sam Boatman of the Village of Antrim Dells got up early and headed out to the Sharon Rose Wiechens Preserve and scored a terrific photograph of a bobcat.
A photographer on Jan. 31 was shooting pictures of a Super Moon when he captured an image of a bobcat at the ninth fairway of the Egret Course at Evans Prairie Golf Course. He initially thought it was a Florida Panther, but it was later determined to be a bobcat.
Widely distributed throughout most of North America, the bobcat has adapted well to neighborhoods throughout Florida, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
The bobcat is equally at home in deep forest, swamps and hammock land. Thick patches of saw palmetto and dense shrub thickets are important as den and resting sites in Florida.
An efficient hunter, the bobcat, like most felines, hunts by sight and usually at night, but seeing a bobcat out during the day is not uncommon because they sleep for only two to three hours at a time.
Like most wildlife species, bobcats have a natural fear of people. However, they may lose this fear if they are taught to associate people with food. FWC recommends that all food and garbage be secured so as not to unnaturally attract bobcats or other wildlife.
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