Amazing photo -- Beautiful! Around here -- they are seldom seen (except as Taxidermy) -- and thank goodness for HW cloth . -- If the predators would just please LEAVE our CHICKENS alone and go eat natural prey!
I figure, i'm the one who moved into the bobcat's home range, rather than the other way around -- so i can spare a chicken now and then, if i'm too careless to keep my eyes on everyone. keeps me on my toes. and it's handy to have scavengers around for when a chicken passes away from other causes, like one of my older hens did two weeks ago -- just left her out for the vultures. and it's a good excuse to hatch more chicks!