{"id":304963,"date":"2025-11-21T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304963\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T10:26:08","slug":"first-confirmed-bobcat-sighting-in-harford-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304963\/","title":{"rendered":"first confirmed bobcat sighting in Harford County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARFORD COUNTY, Md. (WBFF) \u2014 The Susquehannock Wildlife Society has confirmed the first bobcat sighting in Harford County.<\/p>\n<p>Back in September, a private landowner in the northern part of the county sent the wildlife society video of a bobcat on his property, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/1FvAn5mgHD\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to a Nov. 17 Facebook post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbaltimore.com\/news\/local\/house-fire-investigation-whiteford-harford-county-maryland-state-fire-marshal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Woman, dog escape house fire in Harford County, cause under investigation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The wildlife society then went to the location of the spotting to verify the videos were indeed recorded in Harford County.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To our knowledge, this sighting represents the first time a Bobcat has been photographically recorded in Harford County!  Several eyewitness accounts of this species have occurred locally, although none of these sightings have been backed up with evidence until now,&#8221; the wildlife society&#8217;s post read.<\/p>\n<p>We are very excited about this finding, as we can now confidently add a new species of mammal to the list of Harford County&#8217;s flora and fauna.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Bobcats are highly adaptable predator species that play a crucial role in regulating prey populations such as rodents, rabbits and other small mammals. The presence of a bobcat is a &#8220;good indicator of healthy biodiversity,&#8221; according to the wildlife society.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (4)<\/p>\n<p>If you spot a bobcat near you, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.susquehannockwildlife.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Susquehannock Wildlife Society<\/a> asks you to share your sighting with the group privately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARFORD COUNTY, Md. (WBFF) \u2014 The Susquehannock Wildlife Society has confirmed the first bobcat sighting in Harford County.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-304963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}