Tue
Jun 1 2010
03:58 pm
By: R. Neal
You may recall a few weeks ago when the Mrs. claimed she saw a bobcat in her Mom's back yard over in Lakemoor Hills. She finally got the reusable camera film back, and here's the evidence (1:1 crop). Looks like a bobcat to me.
Click the image for a different shot, enlarged (~1.6:1 crop) and enhanced.
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The spouse said one ran
The spouse said one ran across the road in front of him during his bike ride on Sunday. He was out in Blount County, not far from Heritage High.
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Is your Bobcat wearing an ascot? Rather debonair for a feral cat.
Their whole tribe eats meat.
And the ones who are the size of a Great Dane can eat any corn fed biped they pick up on the cafeteria line.
You're lucky to have seen one. I'm jealous. But I'm not looking forward to the day when the ones up there get over their fear of people. Those guys can bring the mayhem and they won't limit their diets to Ohioans once they start to figure out how easy it is to get fresh monkey. That's inevitable in the Smokies, and will be worse in the long run for the cats than for the primates.
I have a coworker who does
I have a coworker who does field work in SW Virginia. He has seen two mountain lions within the past year or so. They were fairly close, so no denying what they were.
I've also seen a mountain
I've also seen a mountain lion in the Smoky Mtn
Was it black? If so, you were hallucinating. Black painters don't and never have existed. If it wasn't black...I dunno. I suppose it's possible there's a remnant population that aren't just escaped 'pets', but think about the very large range these cats have, the fragmentation of the landscape in the Southern Appalachians, the relative frequency of well-documented Florida Panther sightings, the number of mouth-breathing rednecks who would absolutely love to achieve eternal glory by taking down a mountain lion and bringing its carcass to a photographer at the local paper, and the total number of actual verified mountain lions.
Oh, they exist.
"Black painters don't and never have existed."
I beg to differ. They're not at all hard to find, and there's no shortage of talent, there, either.
"I was then told by a
"I was then told by a conservation biologist that the surest sign that there are mountain lions in the Smoky Mtns is that the rangers tell everyone who reports one that they've been drinking stump water. Why? Because nothing scares off the Ohioans like a meat-eating cat the size of a Great Dane."
They released BIG SCARY
COYOTESWOLVES into the park. There's not a sekrit cabal suppressing evidence of mountain lions in the Smokies.The owner of the Barn Event
The owner of the Barn Event Center in Townsend told me last winter that neighbors have heard a mountain lion in this abandoned house behind his barn. They thought it was a woman screaming. Park rangers told them there are no mountain lions anywhere near the park.
The "woman screaming" is how
The "woman screaming" is how most who have heard it describe a bobcat. I love the sound but it never fails to give me chills at first.
Three weeks ago several of us watched one nonchalantly walk out from under a mobile home just up the road, look across at us, and then slowly walk up the hill into the woods. It appears they are pretty active in the day during mating season.
Central Bobcats
Is it any suprise that Bobcats start turning up around the time of their old rivals,Knoxville High School,centennial
celebration?