It would be nice to have something in the frame for size reference.
Jim Smith
Cool. When I would hunt in Maine, we'd see these huge animals. Amazingly fast.
Jim Smith
Looks like the hind end of a bobcat to me. Note the dark tip of the tail, which can also be seen in the bobcat pic someone else posted. Bobcats of this region ( VA, WV, MD, PA, NY) are not all that spotted. I've seen pics of some taken in PA that had almost no spotting on the general body at all, just the belly/inner legs and some faint top spots. Here's a pic of an average colored PA bobcat. It has some spotting, but not like western and SW cats. I have a couple of TX cats that look like jungle cats.