—”So I guess I’ll have to avoid the whole state”
You might be surprised what turns up on local trail cams.
A relative worked for DuPage County and they send a biologist out if you have creditable information.
A while back they had an elk sighting!
They found tracks and scat! and called Elk Grove Village to see if any are missing from their park, all present and accounted for.
A young male looking for love in the wrong places and tend to follow the railroad tracks.
They had thermal imaging of a large cougar in a tree, friends that lived in the area said they had been seeing “something” at night.
I like to run in a local state park after work. Lately this means that I’ve been running in the dark.
There are bears in other state parks in the nearby Adirondacks, so I sometimes feel a little queasy when I’m off the main roads.
One time, in the deep dusk, I saw something lighter than the background, motionless in a tree about 20 feet above me. It was about the size of a human child, just a light grey form. I watched it for thirty seconds or so, trying to figure out what it might be.
Suddenly, it flew off the tree and away through the (fairly dense) forest, in perfect silence. It was amazing. I lost sight of it almost immediately. Through between the branches and leaves with no problem.
“They had thermal imaging of a large cougar in a tree, friends that lived in the area said they had been seeing “something” at night.”
They’ve quietly confirmed a cougar in Bloomingdale from the tracks.
L