Today’s post is brought to you by the letter C.
Piggybacking on yesterday’s post, I figured I would share the different types of cat tails a hiker might see while hiking in the United States’s western/southwestern regions.
This is a bob cat. They are recognizable by their bobbed tails. Of course.
Photo Attribution: docentjoyce [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)%5D
Now that’s a tail! This is not a creature I want to come across while out hiking.
Side note: The title for this photo on Wikipedia Commons is “Annoyed Mountain Lion.” It’s the same look I get in my classroom when I see one of my students doing something they shouldn’t be. I teach twelve- and thirteen-year-old kids. I wear this look often.
Photo Information: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)%5D
And then there are cattails. I took this photo on my last hike. The cattails were poofy and ready to share their fuzz with the world.
I love cattails.
HIKER IN THE VALLEY 