Saturday we added another critter to our sightings at our cabin in Brimson.
I was cleaning my teeth after dinner and I thought I saw a hunting dog going past our cabin. I was trying to decide whether to shoo it back home or lead it back when it turned at looked at the cabin. It was not a dog but a large cat, about 18 inches at the shoulder.
I tried to take a picture of it through the window, but my camera focused on the screen rather than our visitor. In my haste to take a picture, I only saw its face, that it was tawny, and about the size of a dog. My wife saw tufted ears, a short tail, and black feet.
I went outside to try to get a better picture, but before I could even point the camera, it had trotted into the trees. So, this is my only memory of the bobcat:
I was cleaning my teeth after dinner and I thought I saw a hunting dog going past our cabin. I was trying to decide whether to shoo it back home or lead it back when it turned at looked at the cabin. It was not a dog but a large cat, about 18 inches at the shoulder.
I tried to take a picture of it through the window, but my camera focused on the screen rather than our visitor. In my haste to take a picture, I only saw its face, that it was tawny, and about the size of a dog. My wife saw tufted ears, a short tail, and black feet.
I went outside to try to get a better picture, but before I could even point the camera, it had trotted into the trees. So, this is my only memory of the bobcat:
In years past I've seen a bear, a fox, and many deer in our cabin yard. My wife saw a wolf once and we used to have some moose tracks. A few years ago, the Brimson Sisu logo was a lynx, and someone gave a presentation at the Sisu that they were coming back into the area. I thought I had seen lynx tracks in the snow this past winter, but closer examination of my photo showed they were wolf tracks.
I emailed a Forestry Service biologist the track picture and he confirmed it was wolf. I again emailed him about our sighting (without the bad picture). He replied that "It would be great if they start hanging out there again." He also sent me a link to a Natural Resources Research Institute site on lynx.
Click on the links in "Sights and sounds of Lynx" for a couple cool videos. The lynx we saw resembles L28.
