That bobcat looks quite different from the ones here
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I have a picture of one that we debated for weeks if it was actually a Panther. We finally decided it was a Bobcat through logical deductions of height, size, possible spots etc. I was really hoping it was a panther. That would have been an extremely rare Florida picture. maybe even worth money and probably would have brought some University researchers aroundā¦
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On the channel 4 news tonight they reported a coyote killed a deer on someoneās porch in the city! The struggle continued to the driveway and got blood on her car and parts of hyde in the lawn.
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I have tons more. turkey, Buzzards, pig Etcā¦I will gladly post but didnāt want to be a Thread thiefā¦LOL. I will post this though and see what you all think. I took this picture of a Whiperwill one night. Someone who just looked at it today says there is a Snake in the
picture. I took the darn thing and canāt decide if it is actually a snake!
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Wow, 3 bears together! Which part of Florida is this? And the others are coyotes? Very impressive!
For people like me living in the suburbs, itās exciting enough just to see a deer or fox.
By the way, for the past two weeks or so, a fox(s) comes to scream every night outside of my house, several times a night. Do anyone know why they do that? What do they want?
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Iām not so sure about the fox screaming. I would suspect something to do with mating. They are usually very sneaky, quiet animals. Iām just up the road toward I-10 from Lamont Lamont, FL - Lamont, Florida Map & Directions - MapQuest Very far North Florida, Georgia is only 25 miles away. I love seeing all these animals. I spend a lot of time out at night and i see them in person regularly. I really have learned to love the night. Seems everything is amplified by 10 and your senses seem to just naturally ramp up.
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Thereās a guy in IL who claims he has evidence of wolves in the area - or some kind of canid that isnāt the usual coyote. He has lots of webcams set up.
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Iām sorry i didnāt answer the entire question. Yes there is a coyote in there but Bobcat alsoā¦So it goes by picture top to bottom, Bear, bear ,bobcat, 6 raccoons all together, coyote,BIG bear, bobcat in winter, bobcat in late spring.
It is wildlife in your backyard!
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Thatās trueā¦LOL. most of my pics. are literally just 100 yards from my 5th. wheel i have up under a Pole Barn, Tractor, equipment everything right there so they arenāt that timidā¦
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The last bobcat looks so skinny compare with the first one.
I hate raccoons (Iāve said that before). Unlike squirrels and birds, they get ALL your fruit and are very hard to control. As far as coyotes are concerned, Game wardens here in Alabama say ākillāem allā but I really wonder if they are helping control deer and rodents in suburbs where the city meets the countryside. My neighbors say theyāre a lot of coyotes around here but Iāve never see them. See plenty of raccoons though so I hope they get with the program soon!
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It was a VERY hot Spring that year and it had lost all itās winter fur. Thatās all it is. They may even be the same cat. I do think they areā¦
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You may Never see them. But iā would make Odds if you go out calling one night and you are even just barely outside the city you will get a bunch of answers and it very well may shock you. i donāt know of anywhere they are not in abundance anymore. Much more in some places than others but still everywhere none the lessā¦BTWā¦I do believe i am right in saying the raccoon in a pretty worthy adversary to a coyote. They can be damn wicked and coyotes canāt climb trees.
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In the 1970ās, some suburb communities of San Diego paid to have gray/silver fox dens relocated to forest preserves. By the 1990ās residents of those communities were scrambling to put up owl boxes to assist with mice/rat/squirrel control. Oops.
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Ha! A case of be careful what you ask forā¦I guess sometimes people just see whatās directly in front of them at the time. Maybe a cooling off period is neededā¦LOLā¦I guess you canāt always know. Itās a delicate balance. Iām glad we have folks who really study and know how to take all things into consideration now. I donāt know about California but Florida seems to strike a very good balance of conservation to managed hunting. I like it anywayā¦
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A terrible update on my quail nestā¦It was right on the border of my land and my neighbors land. He was trying to be nice and made an extra pass with his lawn mower over on my side. You can guess the restā¦yepā¦ mowed right over the quail nest!!! But waitā¦all hope is not lost. Amazing as it may sound, the mower was high enough that it didnāt actually hit the eggs and the wheels didnāt roll over them either- so the eggs were still there. However, because it is now in short grass, mom abandon it- it checked several times that day and that night and she didnāt come back.
I was so excited about having some new quail here that I decided this couldnāt be the end of the story. So I took them all (there were 14 by then) and have them in my incubator now. I candeled them and they hadnāt started to form at all, which means that going without momās warmth for a day or two probably didnāt hurt them. Once she starts sitting and the embryo forms, they canāt get cold, but before that they can and it looks like that is when I caught them. My incubator probably wonāt have as high a hatch % as mom would have, but if I get just one chick to be born and I raise it till it can be safely released, it will be well worth it. Plus, it will be fun watching them hatch.
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Kevin,
Please keep us updated about your effort. Canāt wait to see baby quail being hatched.
Keep up the good work, Mama quail!
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Yeah keep us posted. Start a Babbeh Quail thread.
I fostered a grackle last yr. fed it with suet, cat food and small bit of mealworms in a slurry then as semi solid
Best of luck hope they do well
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