Posted January 26, 2018 11:30 am by Comments

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

Bobcat Image Named Winner of Wildlife Photo of the Year Contest
Bobcat Image Named Winner of Wildlife Photo of the Year Contest

USA -(Ammoland.com)- Santa Clara resident Shravan Sundaram’s photograph of a young bobcat descending a tree in Livermore’s Sycamore Grove Park earned the 2017 grand prize in the California Wildlife Photo of the Year contest.

The intense gaze of the cat as it stared into the camera’s lens elevated it in the yearlong contest presented by California Watchable Wildlife and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s magazine, Outdoor California and sponsored by the Sierra Nevada Conservancy and Alpine Optics.

Sundaram’s photograph captured the young bobcat as it played with siblings along a ravine next to a hiking path. The photographer said once the animals noticed him on the trail, they grew cautious – except for the largest. He continued to scamper up the backside of a tree.

Sundaram remained poised, with his camera aimed at the spot where he anticipated the cat would emerge.

“When he headed down along my side of the tree, I just took a whole series of shots,” Sundaram said.

CDFW Director Charlton H. Bonham selected the grand prize winner from the contest finalists. “This photo of the young bobcat is cool,” Bonham said. “There is a certain look …Read the Rest

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