Posted on 04/22/2021 2:27:13 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Another bobcat has been photographed by a game camera in a Will County forest preserve.
This rare picture of the elusive animal is from the Sand Ridge Savanna Nature Preserve in Custer Township, which uses motion-activated cameras to document animal numbers and movements.
"Bobcats can have a wide variety of home range sizes, so that won't help either," Blankenship added. "Logically, if last year's photos showed a mother with two kittens, there is a male out there somewhere too. I'd love to get more photos to help piece this wildlife story together."
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Every once in awhile, a bobcat walks through my backyard.
—” The Bobcats “
The Dwarfs?
American Rivet?
Big Banjo?
I do not believe I have heard anything of 16” in 50 years???
Suprised I can recall anything???
The King and his Court? Was that 16”?
Why not? We have wolves in Will County too. I have pictures from one in my back yard back in 2009. By the time I got my .308 out and some shoes on (it was February and snowing) it was gone. Tracked it on foot all the way to Route 6 before I lost it in the woods.
—”But she would be about a two week long buffet for the bobcats.”
We have an overgrown easement behind our property, a coyote expressway.
When the dogs, unfortunately, catch something, I drop it back there.
ALWAYS gone by morning.
My garden camera catches all kinds of critters, mostly feasting on mulberrys.
At least it was not a baby dinosaur
Imagine it finding it’s mother nearby and they both need a snack....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLCOALqlJl0
—”They were hunted for a reason, and it wasn’t for food.”
1970’s a coworker and AVID bow hunter took a bobcat; taxidermist turned him in.
TWO YEARS JAIL TIME.
Pennsylvania's last mountain lion was shot in 1871, and bob cats nearly wiped out in the 1930s.
Today mountain lions are occasionally claimed to be seen, wild, and the bob cat population recovered to about 5,000 allowing for annual hunting of about a thousand.
Black bears number around 20,000 here and deer 1.5 million, of which about 100,000 each year collide with vehicles, causing some $400 million in damages, injuring 1,500 people and killing dozens.
Deer here are vastly more dangerous than mountain lions, bob cats & bears ever even thought of being.
So who was he calling? His very beautiful girlfriend?
My cat weighs that much. 15 lbs. would be a pretty small bobcat, wouldn’t it? I mean, this is a large house cat, but I would think that a bobcat would be in higher weight class.
We have deer everywhere here, and turkeys. There are occasionally bear issues in residential areas, but not often. Coyotes? Growing problem for years.
As a child in the 70’s very much away from the city, we never saw turkeys or coyotes (deer all the time and plenty of snakes), but no coyotes. Ever. Now, we see both in the suburbs and even within city limits, if barely. A couple of years ago I counted 17 wild turkeys in a field at my mother’s house. She had a fig tree that they took quite a liking to.
A couple of weeks ago, one of my father’s cats barely survived a bobcat attack. Said cat is recovering and is now an indoor cat.
My wife worked for a county agency with wildlife biologists ...
I used to occasionally hear ‘animal stories’
An animal found dead on Feb. 13 along a road north of Morris has been confirmed by DNA testing to be a wolf from what is known as the “Great Lakes Population” of gray wolves, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has confirmed.
Mar 2, 2005 — A timber wolf found dead near a state park in Lake County last month, probably hit by a vehicle, is a hopeful sign for restoration of an almost extinct ... 18 at the side of Illinois Highway 83 near Chain O’ Lakes State Park
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-03-02-0503020290-story.html
They aren’t. That’s the average size. They are also a lot more common than people think, but they are very good at hiding and rarely come out during the day.
Okay, good to know my cat can probably hold his own if ones approaches. Bobcats are not much of an issue here. Coyotes can be, but, he is on a screened in porch at night.
The wildlife biologist said that if there’s a mom with kittens, there must be a dad.
He’ll be fired for his offense in 24 hrs.
Some years we see huge flocks of turkeys, this past year not so much.
PA Game Commission says there were 400,000 turkeys statewide just a few years ago but populations declined somewhat more recently.
To my knowledge, no turkey, bob cat or mountain lion has ever killed a Pennsylvanian, unlike */@#&! deer.
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