I am outside almost everyday, in my fields and woods. I’ve been working with trees from my woods in my sawmill, so I go out daily.
I just ask for anyone in Alabama who has seen a cougar, please take a picture. I have game cameras throughout my woods, and I have lots of photos of deer, raccoons, possums, coyotes, foxes, armadillos, skunks, weasels and birds of all kinds, from buzzards to turkeys all they way down to hummingbirds, but no panthers. Nor have I seen any Alabama based game cameras showing them either.
I do need to post some game cameras. I’m just a very busy guy with other priorities, but won’t go into all that right now. My son has actually had multiple visual encounters, almost always around dusk. I heard one late one afternoon that seemed to be a couple of hundred yards away up the hill from my house. It was unmistakably a cat semi-growl/snarl, but resonated so deeply that the sound carried very clearly to where I was . . . a bobcat or house cat could not have made that sound. A hunter friend whose property joins ours says that a game warden has confirmed to him that a breeding pair ranges along that river. They just keep it quiet in an effort to protect them.