This lovely lynx has been hunting squirrels around our house the last while. He/she has been much more effective at controlling them than my pitiful
attempts with an air rifle!
Plus we get to watch it! Here its waiting at a hole patiently while eyeing me with the camera, I was 60 feet away from it!
noproblemo2 - 10-26-2009 at 04:41 PM
Doesn't seem to want you to get its catch.... Sharksbaja - 10-26-2009 at 05:02 PM
Wow man what a great photo and op! Must be really somrthing up there, the wildlife experience. /
Say, how large an animal would you reckon it is?Paulina - 10-26-2009 at 06:01 PM
What a beautiful animal! You are so blessed to be living where you are and to experience nature the way you have. Thank you for sharing these types of
photos. I think they are wonderful.
P<*)))>{Mexitron - 10-26-2009 at 06:43 PM
Awesome!msteve1014 - 10-26-2009 at 06:59 PM
It's amazing to watch a real hunter in action. Not something you see, or get a picture of, very often.
Tabby
tehag - 10-26-2009 at 08:32 PM
Very cool shot of that cat. I think it is probably a bobcat. The lynx range doesn't normally extend south of Oregon. Bobcats are common in most of
Baja and Baja Sur.vandenberg - 10-26-2009 at 09:09 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by tehag
Very cool shot of that cat. I think it is probably a bobcat. The lynx range doesn't normally extend south of Oregon. Bobcats are common in most of
Baja and Baja Sur.
I didn't think the lynx's range came this far souh, but wasn't sure. The lynx I've seen looked larger and had big tufted ears.
[Edited on 10-27-2009 by vandenberg]BajaNuts - 10-26-2009 at 09:14 PM
From Wikipedia-
"Lynx have short tails and characteristic tufts of black hair on the tip of their ears. They have a ruff under the neck, which has black bars (not
very visible), resembling a bow tie. They have large padded paws for walking on snow, and long whiskers on the face."
"The Bobcat (Lynx rufus) is a North American mammal of the cat family, Felidae. With twelve recognized subspecies, it ranges from southern Canada to
northern Mexico, including most of the continental United States.
With a gray to brown coat, whiskered face, and black-tufted ears, the Bobcat resembles the other species of the mid-sized Lynx genus. It is smaller
than the Canadian Lynx, with which it shares parts of its range, but is about twice as large as the domestic cat. It has distinctive black bars on its
forelegs and a black-tipped, stubby tail, from which it derives its name.
Though the Bobcat prefers rabbits and hares, it will hunt anything from insects and small rodents to deer. Prey selection depends on location and
habitat, season, and abundance.
The Bobcat is an adaptable predator that inhabits wooded areas, as well as semi-desert, urban edge, forest edges and swampland environments. It
persists in much of its original range and populations are healthy."
Is this one of those "bighorn sheep-mountain goat" questions?
sounds like the bobcat is a lynx subspecies, but I'm not gonna try to figure all that out.
WAY COOL picture, these critters are pretty elusive, so to have one hanging around is pretty neat!
edit for text out of order- had to call in the sargeant at arms~
[Edited on 10-27-2009 by BajaNuts]oladulce - 10-26-2009 at 09:53 PM
NICE!
Our previous house backed up to the hills of Camp Pendelton and one day i was out washing my car and Bigwooo and our little old gato were talking with
a neighbor. I had my head in my car but felt the thump, thump, thump, of some groundshaking footsteps as something passed by me and went into our
garage, and then house.
I looked up in time to see the most beautiful, Bobby sauntering in to our garage and our cat was following along like, "do dah do do.."
"Ba...Ba....Ba " was all i could spit out as i tried to get BigWooo's attention and my subtle jumping up and down must have aroused the Cat's
attention because he changed his mind about going all the way in to the house. He turned around and casually walked by us again and I got to feel the
power as his footsteps radiated through the ground - something i'll never forget.
I was suprised that he wasn't much bigger than our neighbors MaineCoon cat but what a powerful beauty. Can't imagine what it's like to be near a
Mountain Lion!
Hope he becomes a regular guest at your place astro.
[Edited on 10-27-2009 by oladulce]DianaT - 10-26-2009 at 10:27 PM
Nice photo---very nice.
Spotted cats
oladulce - 10-27-2009 at 08:02 AM
We have a spotted cat and the hair on her back is colored to form the spots. But the spots underneath are imprinted on her skin.
I'm curious if that's true of all spotted cats so next time you're rubbing this kitty's belly, would you check that out Astrobajaastrobaja - 10-27-2009 at 10:53 AM
Hi all,
Been having problems with our starband since they moved to a new bird, seems to be sorting itself out though.
Not sure if this cat is the same one we saw hunting in the field where our horses are (neither was concerned about the others presence!) but we see
them pretty regularly! Once on the 6km long road in to our ranch we saw one that was much redder in colouration, so perhaps it was a different species
or they just have a lot of variation. This kitty is pretty hefty I would estimate 35-40 lbs! I coulld have gotten even closer than 60 feet but the
look in its eye kinda discouraged me!
We certainly are blessed to be in an area where elusive wildlife abounds, but one pic I want to get is of another cat species that might just be an
endemic one new to the park region! We have seen it twice just before sunset, it looks like an ocelot with a long tail, around perhaps 25 lbs. I have
talked to Juan Vargas the head of Project Condor and he has seen this cat too. Juan has studied wildcats in the jungle interior of Mexico for many
years and he feels this could be a new species. He says wild species of cats do not mix with domestic cats. We may try to setup a motion sensor
infrared camera sometime to try to capture an image of this cat.
New cat
tehag - 10-27-2009 at 03:14 PM
Wow! Would that ever be cool. maybe they can name it Astrocat.shari - 10-28-2009 at 07:37 AM
thanks for the pics and topic Astro...baja cats are fascinating. We also have Bobcats here that have crossed with domestic cats...we have 3 bobcat
crossed cats and they are so cool but attack dogs...they are jacked up in the back and aren't afraid of anything...people come from miles around
looking for this "new" breed of kitty....which by the way, we have a male really cool bobcat siames kitten...real fiesty that needs a home.
Once at San roque at dusk we saw a huge cougar going down to the beach...what a gorgeous animal....and have seen tracks at the beach in town
too...neato.
[Edited on 10-28-2009 by shari]
jahImpala3 - 10-31-2009 at 06:39 AM
That lynx is cool. Shari, I've seen many cougars prowling the beaches on the east side of Bahia Concepcion. They are too stealthy to get a camera out
for a picture though. I would love to see any nomad pictures of those mystical cougars at the beach.
