@clarkinks
There are multiple species of Lynx in north America. The one in your photo need not be Canadian.
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I think you ran into a Kansas Sasquatch. Thatâs right out of the Bigfoot handbook. lol
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Anything is possible but i wasnt leaving and i didnât. I stayed up fishing all night right in front of the creek. I caught a ton of fish. I had heard that before, but it could have been birds dropping acorns or sticks, etc. Whatever was screwing with me found out i dont scare off easy. It also made sure i wasnât staying 2 nights. It wanted to get rid of me. I would have thought person but there is absolutely no way a person could get there or would have been there. My friend and i carried the boat over several log jams to get there. He got drunk and slept like a baby.
It is hard to say what some of these things are. I used to hear strange noises in the woods and one night i tracked them down and found out they were peacocks. I smiled a bit to see escaped peacocks. One day i.was fishing in the creek and started catching a bunch of fish with teeth. Apparently they were some kind of pike. We dont have pike here anywhere i know of. They ate anything that was meat or worms. When i was a kid the creek was a source of entertainment. I.would find bobbers , beer etc floating downstream. The fish came in all shapes and sizes. This is a great area to grow up.
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I will verify that feral peacocks are noisy, day and night.
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A peacocks voice sounds a bit odd and it will startle you at midnight. That yaaaa yaaaa yaaaaa sound had me traveling miles in the dark looking for the source. None of the old farmers knew what it was. There was some wild speculation. Seeing those peacocks felt like someone had played a big joke on me.
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This reminds me of the time where i perfected a wolfâs howl and had the neighborhood thinking we had a wild wolf running around 
i would do it then check on the nextdoor and neighborhood group lol
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My grandparents had them when I was growing up and Iâll never forget when I was in Poland the first time; me and my friends went to a park in Warsaw. They couldnât wait to show me the exotic birds which inhabited the park, but the whole way there they didnât know the name in English and I of course didnât know the name in Polish. However when we were about a mile away I said âyou guys arenât trying to impress me with peacocks are you?â⊠them âahh yes thats the name of them, how did you know?â⊠âwell I could hear them for miles but didnât think of them as something interesting to seeâ haha
In their defense they are pretty birds, but I just didnât think of them as exotic, but I canât think of too many domesticated animals I wouldnât rather own over a peacock. Nothing is constantly louder than a peacock, not even a rooster.
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Yes, i literally heard the peacocks voices carrying miles away. Sometimes people believe that is an exaggeration, as you know it is not.
You sound wilder than the wolves. Some friends stopped by once and as a coutesy i offered them a drink of the usual water, tea, coffee, soda pop. They asked if they could instead have some homemade cherry wine. I cautioned against it since i made it with honey. They ensured me that was what they wanted. Within 2 hours they were outside howling at the moon they felt so good. I explained honey makes a higher alcohol content because its much sweeter than sugar. My former roomate Sheri drank the last of it. Needless to say they unexpectedly stayed the night. Them and their girlfriends had the time of their lives out here and returned every weekend for the next 2 months but never again drinking that powerful mead / cherry wine. Wolves howl to call one another to a location. Many animals signal like that. Native Americans used such calls as well. In this place filled with coyote and coy wolves iâm curious how many would arrive to answer what they thought was a friend or traveler. In my childhood the neighbor girl used a coyote howl to tell me her location. It was a way to signal me without letting any other person know where she was. We went exploring daily and disclosed our coveted spots to noone even now. Her and i generally were after wild strawberries, mulberries, or mushrooms or something else we considered valuable. In this way nobody knew where we were ever. Her and i still strategize as a team. We would sain the creeks for fish or go swimming. We mined clay out of ditches and would fire it into pots. We also protected ourselves with homemade or store bought arrows and guns. We typically liked arrows because we travelled far and they were light. We walked at least 3 miles a day. We could see danger very quickly. Half a dozen wild dogs once treed us for a couple of hours. Her dad killed them a couple of days later. He was after them for attacking calves and trying to eat us.
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The neighbor lady kept peacocks when I was growing up. She also provided sanctuary to maurading herds of purple guineas.
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Sometimes i get bored 
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made about a gal. of applejack sweetened with honey about 10yrs ago. got it to 83 proof. share some with friends and family. that stuff made you crazy due to all the impurities in there that applejack was known for. reminded me of the soju made in Korea in the 90âs. people would think they could fly because of the fomaldehyde content in it. exported soju had it filtered out. dont know if its in applejack but people do some stupid shit drinking it. my wife forbade me to make anymore. lol. try making Martha Washingtonâs cherry bounce recipie with your cherries. its delicious and wont make you too crazy in moderation. 
a good way to use up those extra cherries.i just break them open and put in pits and all. it gets strained in the end anyway. just dont break the pits. made some with brandy and some with wild turkey.
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Squab. Itâs whatâs for dinner.
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Iâve been chasing this one and 1 other all morning. I donât understand how they eat so much. Literally from 7am all the way until now/almost 4pm, theyâve been gobbling raspberries.
At least the little chickadees eat the sawfly larva too but this one and its friend have been looking for unripe Blueberries and raspberries all day. And if itâs too unripe, it wonât even eat the blueberry! Itâll just toss it 
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Great shot!
