A game camera video documents a wild bobcat on the 272-acre Laidlaw Preserve in Washington County, Florida on October 6, 2010 at 1:36 pm.  This beautiful mixture of swamp, wetlands, and uplands was donated to Audubon by Beulah A. Laidlaw to be preserved in its natural state.  The preserve is owned by Florida Audubon Society and managed by Bay County Audubon Society through a memorandum of agreement.  Video courtesy of Neil Lamb.

This is a prime example of the Audubon family working together.  Chapter volunteers as citizen scientists wrote a management plan and implemented strategies to improve the ecological status of the property.  Game cameras purchased with a grant add valuable knowledge about the property to augment physical observations.  This bobcat, using one of the cleared trails in the middle of the day, now joins the gopher tortoises, armadillos, alligators, raccoons, opossums, wild turkeys, deer, and Eastern wood rats already recorded in their daily activities.

Among the regular wildlife found at the Beulah Laidlaw Nature Preserve, local chapter leaders have recently observed migrating wildlife, including:

• Black & White Warbler
• Palm Warbler
• Nashville Warbler
• Tennessee Warbler
• Blue-winged Warbler
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Parula Warbler
• Common Yellowthroat
• Sedge Wrens (2)
• Wood Ducks (7)