Thursday, January 22, 2015
Bob Cat on my Trail Camera
Did the tracks in the woods two days ago belong to this fellow? Nope. The Bob Cat tracks aren't nearly as big. . CLICK HERE TO View THE BOBCAT ON YOUTUBE
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Mountain Lion
January 20, 2015: I needed ice walkers to move in the woods. There was a variety of animal tracks: fox, rabbit, deer, and bobcat, frozen in place following heavy rains; and a set of tracks left by something a whole lot larger, which curiousity required I follow to be sure of what I was seeing.
I took a couple of photos with a cell phone, but didn't find the spot where the cat --yes a BIG cat--had lain down in the snow, against a Hemlock tree, until after the phone battery died.
While the rain had washed out the fine detail, I'm posting this photo, to give a comparison between a deer track, on the lower left, and the cat track, going in the opposite direction, at the upper middle. The rear foot overlapped the forefoot, making it look like one elongated track.
Just beyond this spot, the cat leapt at least 10-12 feet, coming down the other side of a blow-down.
These mountain lion tracks were made sometime between January 17th and 18th, 2015. If I wasn't an old grandmother trying to navigate a woodland full of ice, and if my cell phone hadn't died, I might have followed them further.
I went back the next day with a charged battery in the iPhone, to photograph the hemlock tree with scrapings and the melted area under the tree, but wouldn't you know it..I could NOT locate the tree with the scrapings again...not even by following my own tracks...
May 2015 update: I found the tree with the scrapings! See my May 5 2015 posting.
I took a couple of photos with a cell phone, but didn't find the spot where the cat --yes a BIG cat--had lain down in the snow, against a Hemlock tree, until after the phone battery died.
While the rain had washed out the fine detail, I'm posting this photo, to give a comparison between a deer track, on the lower left, and the cat track, going in the opposite direction, at the upper middle. The rear foot overlapped the forefoot, making it look like one elongated track.
Just beyond this spot, the cat leapt at least 10-12 feet, coming down the other side of a blow-down.
These mountain lion tracks were made sometime between January 17th and 18th, 2015. If I wasn't an old grandmother trying to navigate a woodland full of ice, and if my cell phone hadn't died, I might have followed them further.
I went back the next day with a charged battery in the iPhone, to photograph the hemlock tree with scrapings and the melted area under the tree, but wouldn't you know it..I could NOT locate the tree with the scrapings again...not even by following my own tracks...
May 2015 update: I found the tree with the scrapings! See my May 5 2015 posting.
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