Interesting. I’ll go hunt around for my picture posting notes and post it here. I use trail cameras on a regular basis. (They are a world of fun.) The picture is fuzzy, but, if had to guess, I would guess that, if it’s not a huge house cat, that it is an immature mountain lion, but probably normal color phase. The coloring is obviously mottled in the photo, which I would guess is an artifact of the photographic image. If one had to choose between the light and dark sections, I would go with the light sections as the primary color, simply because it makes more sense to do so. If I had seen the picture without any context of location, I might have said jaguarundi. Something doesn’t look quite right about it, but I’m guessing immature mountain lion.
I’ll try to post the picture soon.
There were 2 more pictures I did not post. They show the back half of the critter better- shows the long skinny tail. the camera was about 10 feet from the cat.. I have seen it twice since then- one week later same spot. and one week ago in broad daylight 1/4 mile away as it ran across the road into a field ... I have also heard it scream like the mercury bobcat commercial... makes the hair stand up !!