Bobcat Prowling

This book is a follow-up to Coyote Moon and Hawk Rising. Its hero is a young bobcat called Yearling, who is looking for a place of his own. The story opens at dawn, when the animal wakes and his yowling breaks through the quiet of the early day.

In the cold months, snow shows his tracks as he sets off across a landscape where stinging winds and freezing temperatures make every step harder. He moves back and forth between thick wild forest and the neighborhoods nearby, trying to catch hare, squirrel and pheasant as he goes. Each time he makes an attempt, an established predator already living in the area gets in his way.

The central question is whether Yearling can secure a territory that belongs to him.