Big Cat sighted in Sykesville
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Pushrod
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Here is a bobcat I caught on my game camera here in WV. Some views make them hard to distinguish from mountain lions. If the OP's game camera picture is indeed from Maryland, that is the 1st photographic proof I've seen of a lion in the mid-Atlantic area.
In the field across from my house where a farmer runs cattle, he has had two calves killed in the past several months. According to him, something bit them behind the head and took them down before eviscerating and eating them.
I suggested it was a bear and he is adamant that it isn't and that this is the work of a mountain lion. I have not seen the carcasses so I can't form an opinion. He did call WVDNR, however, they never showed up to examine either calf.
WVDNR will definitively state that there are no mountain lions in wV. I have yet to see proof, but I hear a lot of incidental reports of sightings. With all the game cameras out there, it they were around, you would think that there would be a lot more pictures captured of them.
The OP's picture looks like a mountain lion.
In the field across from my house where a farmer runs cattle, he has had two calves killed in the past several months. According to him, something bit them behind the head and took them down before eviscerating and eating them.
I suggested it was a bear and he is adamant that it isn't and that this is the work of a mountain lion. I have not seen the carcasses so I can't form an opinion. He did call WVDNR, however, they never showed up to examine either calf.
WVDNR will definitively state that there are no mountain lions in wV. I have yet to see proof, but I hear a lot of incidental reports of sightings. With all the game cameras out there, it they were around, you would think that there would be a lot more pictures captured of them.
The OP's picture looks like a mountain lion.
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Sure, it is beautiful until it gets someones Pomeranian.
Which would make it all the more beautiful!
Mr H
Banana'd
But the cat would just be hungry again in an hour
Well that too perhaps, bottom line man and mountain lions cannot cohabitate. That is of course they took out bike riders riding in the road impeding traffic.
100% that's a Bobcat.
If so, it's in the sense that he's a juvenile mountain lion that identifies as a bobcat. It's all cool these days.
It looks like a Bobcat to me, but regardless, it seems too convenient that no photo in (presumably) a series of photos from that camera shows the tail.
Many trail cams only grab (or, to prevent recording thousands of images every time the wind blows, are set to grab) a shot only every few seconds. Quite possible for the cat to have been long gone from the camera's coverage by the very next frame.
Abuck
Ultimate Member
I'm with bobcat also. I have a lot of them on my trail camera, and it's often hard to see all the features, such as the ears, closely. Also, I have my cam set for 3 shot bursts, but often only have one pic of them. I have observed them in the wild, and they always seem to move fairly quickly in the open, and only stop when and where they have some cover.
PapiBarcelona
Ultimate Member
- Jan 1, 2011
- 7,359
Picture modes/settings, quality of the camera itself all plays a role.
And then stuff like that may have been the best picture of the cat as it simply just did not walk into the frame any further and took off another direction if it's not a hoax
Probably a 20/30 second movie mode would have settled what type of cat this is more than 1 picture
And then stuff like that may have been the best picture of the cat as it simply just did not walk into the frame any further and took off another direction if it's not a hoax
Probably a 20/30 second movie mode would have settled what type of cat this is more than 1 picture
PoPo3
Active Member
Agreed. Bobcat. I bet if you put a yard stick out there for reference, it wouldn’t be as big as it looks
jessebogan
Active Member
- Feb 25, 2012
- 503
About 15 years ago I was working in Harrisonburg Va. I was sitting in my car eating lunch when a bunch of co workers came running out the back. I was curious and wandered over. Just on our side of the tree line, there was a cougar wandering along. One of my fellow mechanics had his rifle in the truck so all of us took turns watching it through his scope. They are bigger than I thought...
I reported the sighting to DNR (or whatever they are called there) and was told they do not exist in Virginia.
I have a friend in Va who spends a fair amount of time in the woods. He has seen 2 (Maybe the same one, who knows)in two widely separated areas of Va, once with a forest service crew.The one I saw was inside the southern city limits of Harrisonburg...
I reported the sighting to DNR (or whatever they are called there) and was told they do not exist in Virginia.
I have a friend in Va who spends a fair amount of time in the woods. He has seen 2 (Maybe the same one, who knows)in two widely separated areas of Va, once with a forest service crew.The one I saw was inside the southern city limits of Harrisonburg...
sgt23preston
USMC LLA. NRA Life Member
We usually see a couple of Cougars hanging around Bel Air High School from time to time...
You can tell that they are Cougars by the way the drool & moan when watching the football games...
You can tell that they are Cougars by the way the drool & moan when watching the football games...
Mr H
Banana'd
Either way, it sounds like a case of "Here, kitty..."
lowoncash
Baned
Most of the bobcats I’ve seen have rooftop cage thing around the operator and a front loader.
