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I thought I saw a bobcat this morning, for the first time ever other than on television or in photos, but I can’t be 100% sure because it was so far away.  I got off the Amtrak train at the Route 128 station in Westwood, Mass., to wait for the local commuter train to travel two stops on that to get home from my New York trip.  About 100 yards away I saw an animal cross the tracks.  I think it was a raccoon.  It was about 7:45 a.m., a little late for a raccoon still to be out.  Then a few minutes later, at the same place, another animal crossed the tracks.  At first I thought it must be another raccoon, but the legs were longer.  It looked like a cat but bigger than any house cat.  I wasn’t wearing my glasses, and my vision for distances is about 20/40 without glasses.  The station is next to a large swamp called the Fowl Meadow, where there are lots of birds such as ducks and their ilk, and so that swamp is probably a good place for bobcats to live.