Roy Toft has shot video and stills of coyotes, California gray fox, raptors, lynx, opossums, skunks, mule deer and raccoons on his San Diego property.
" 'Oh, we got coyotes walking, cool,'"Toft remembers thinking."Bobcats. And then, four years ago, I got my first mountain lion, and that made me think, 'Wow, I didn't think we had mountain lions here. I know they're around, but I didn't know they walked through our valley right here behind the house."
While Toft has spent a lot of time photographing big cats , his interests are not so narrowly focused. Incredibly, Toft said, he has stills and video of an astounding 10 different mountain lions, which can he can tell apart by facial markings, cuts on the ear, differentiating by noses, and a pattern around whiskers that's like a fingerprint.
Toft's trail and watering-hole cameras have captured a who's who of local fauna: Pumas, coyotes, California gray fox, raptors, lynx, opossums, skunks, mule deer and raccoons, to name more than a few. One animal, though, has eluded him. For San Diego's wildlife, nothing may be more precious than water, so Toft has set up not one but two watering holes on his property, both within a half-mile of his house. The wet stuff is a magnet for the animals.
Toft's mantra is, the mountain lions are here, they're hanging in in a tough environment and they rarely have a negative impact on us.
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