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Started by Faron, December 20, 2005, 12:26:23 AM

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Faron

As we made our way to church Sunday, something dashed across the road about 60 feet ahead of us.   At about the same time, we both shouted "Bobcat"!!!   8) 8) 8)  It was indeed a bobcat, and it was flat out getting it across the road.  I think it made it across in about three bounds.  I imagine a bobcat is old hat for some of you, but it is the first time I have seen one outside of a zoo. 

It is interesting to think of the changes in wildlife in my lifetime in this area.  In the early 60s,  whitetail deer were occasionally seen, but it was not a common thing.  Today they are so common as to almost be a pest.  Beaver were unknown here back then, and are common today.  I saw my first coyotes in 1975.  I just heard some howling a few minutes ago, as I do most nights.  During the 60's and early 70's it was difficult to raise soybeans in a lot of fields, because groundhogs ate so much.  The coyotes quickly brought them under control, and today you only see a few groundhogs per summer.  Wild turkeys were unknown here until 15 or 20 years ago, and are common today.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.  Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. - Ben Franklin

sprucebunny

Great sighting ;D

We saw a black bear dash across a state road and leap over the guard rail. We really wish we had been able to see what happened next cause there was a SHARP drop off to the river there  :o

I've never seen a bobcat but our wildlife has changed in a similar way.
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OneWithWood

Bobcats have a much wider range than fols are aware of.  Our wildlife biologist told me of one tagged here in southern Indiana that was killed on the highway outside of St. Louis.  Now that is travellin'.  If there is a bobcat in the area and you are wanting to see it during the daylight hours you need to be looking up.  They sleep in the tree tops during the day and typically hunt and mvoe around after dark.  The one you saw was running from something.  Maybe deer hunters.
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Bro. Noble

There is an area close to our house where bobcats raise.  I hear them scream once in a while,  but might go three or four years without seeing one.  It is easier to trap one than to get sight of a live one seems to me.
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crtreedude

Well, not all are sleeping - in Arizona where this picture comes from this bad boy was looking for a pet snack... They have adapted really well to finding dogs and cats wandering outside of homes.  :o



A friend as a new place and took this picture during the middle of the day.
So, how did I end up here anyway?

Bro. Noble

That don't appear to be 'Mr. Bob' ;)
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crtreedude

You are probably right Bro. Noble, how would I know?  ::) I can recognize a tolomuco, an oso de cabello, a paca and various other flor y fauna down this way.

So what do you think it is?  ???
So, how did I end up here anyway?

thecfarm

That Bobcat is a little bit bigger than the ones I've seen around here. I don't see many around here. The wife and I was taking a walk around the field and a bobcat was stretching his neck out as far as it could to see us around the edge of the field. Soon as he could really see us, he took off into the woods.
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crtreedude

Noble,

You go to the corner... Jeff - change his hat to a dunce cap!

http://www.azgfd.com/h_f/game_bobcat.shtml

I guess desert ones look different.
So, how did I end up here anyway?

Bro. Noble

Fred,

I guess I'd better go to my corner and stay where I can be an  'hombre felis' and not run into that old 'hambre felix' ;D ::)

I think that there cat is the real thing------Mr. Mtn. Lion :o :o
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crtreedude

I tell you what - I won't want to run into that bobcat in an enclosed space! It looks like it could do some serious damage! Fifi is not going to have a good day I am thinking...
So, how did I end up here anyway?

Weekend_Sawyer


Over the weekend 2 of my brothers and I went to our cabin in Eastern WV. The drive from the paved road to the cabin is a mile and a quarter of old logging trails, about half way there we saw a black bear going up the side of the mountain, when it got to a logging trail it took off, loping down the trail. Quite a thing to see.

The next day a Coyote ran past me. It kept looking back over it's sholder while running along. That made me pay attention. It didn't even know I was there. I never did see what it was running from.

A while later a buck wandered by and my ol 54 cal Hawkin was talkin! Another deer in the freezer.

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Faron

I was real excited to see that cat.   As we talked about it on our way to church, I said, " Well, we've just seen our first bobcat.  When, or if, do you suppose I'll ever see a mountain lion around here?"  My wife smiled sweetly and said, "Probably by the end of the day, when you get done stretching this story!"   ;) :D :D 
Fred, that Arizona cat is way bigger than the one I saw.  It does look like a bobcat to me, though.  Wonder what my heelers would think if something like that wondered into the yard?
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.  Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. - Ben Franklin

crtreedude

Since the article says that they are between 30 to 50 lbs - that one looks on the big side of that. Perhaps they get really big when they had tied up Fifi to munch on?  ???
So, how did I end up here anyway?

Paul_H

Science isn't meant to be trusted it's to be tested

Ron Scott

Yes, they are very powerful at 30-50 lbs. I was attacked and "chewed on" by one back in 1957 in the western UP near the Michigan/Wisconsin border. I was at its mercy until it let go of my right hand with its teeth clamped right through my hand.

Had to go into the doctor in Rhinelander, Wisconsin for some stitching, antibiotics and tetanus shots.
~Ron

Paul_H

Ron,

what set him off to attack? I have heard that they are the crankiest of the North American Cats and the Lynx is the most laid back.
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crtreedude

I have seen 4 Jaguarundi so far, and the foot prints of the Pumas. I saw a skinned Ocelot (which I wish I hadn't) in a barn once.

The only one that is pretty common is the Jaguarundi - I once saw a pair of them on the farm.

So, how did I end up here anyway?

Bro. Noble

Quote from: crtreedude on December 20, 2005, 12:07:04 PM
I can recognize an oso de cabello

:o :o :o :o  A horse's WHAT?   :D :D :D
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crtreedude

Horse Bear - come on - isn't that obvious?

Or do you want what English people call it?

Giant Anteater

By the way, they are considered much more dangerous than an overgrown puddy cat like a puma. The regular anteaters (oso hormiguero) kill lots of dogs who are too stupid to stay away. They rip them apart with their front claws.

A giant anteater can easily kill a horse.  :o We are supposed to have one that wanders into our property at times - they are nearly extinct. No one has seen one - but they can hear it during the mating season.

So, how did I end up here anyway?

Bro. Noble

Lo siento----schuse me------I thought you might be talking about my buddy Paul_H :D :D :D
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Paul_H

Thanks for watching my back Noble,yer a real pal  :D


Quote from: crtreedude on December 20, 2005, 02:59:48 PM
oso de caballo - larger than average and weird looking. Pretty shaggy hair at times (and at times forget to shave for a week)

Oh, and I am out to destroy ants...





Quote from: crtreedude on December 22, 2005, 12:30:01 PM
A giant anteater can easily kill a horse.  :o We are supposed to have one that wanders into our property at times - they are nearly extinct. No one has seen one - but they can hear it during the mating season.


Hmmmm,veddy interesting  :-\
Science isn't meant to be trusted it's to be tested

Ron Scott

I got between a big female and her 3 cubs. I didn't see her until she lunged out of the brush at me. Clawed my chest and latched on to my right hand. The bite tore the finger nail  out of right index finger. A lot of hurt.

I reached for my hand gun  with the left hand and clubed her on the head with the butt, but the harder I hit the harder she chewed. I was at her mercy until she let go, then I got a "wild" shot at her as she ran off.

~Ron

thurlow

""""""""No one has seen one - but they can hear it during the mating season."""""""""""So what is the mating call?  Something like that of the sorority girls in an un-named Southern University, "I'M SO DRUNK"????

Here's to us and those like us; DanG few of us left!

crtreedude

I haven't the foggiest what they sound like - but I gather it is weird.  I don't think they speak English - but perhaps Spanish...

"A genuine anteater,"
The pet man told me dad.
Turned out, it was an aunt eater,
And now my uncle's mad!
      --Shel Silverstein

So, how did I end up here anyway?

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