Not here. Although there have been some legit sightings in New England over the last half century. One was hit by a car in CT in the last decade.
But I definitely saw a large feline with a long tail with tan/light brown short fur casually walk down the end of my driveway and cross the road Fri night around sunset. It was way larger than a domestic cat and the tail was definitely waving side to side in typical feline fashion. Maybe it was just a bobcat and an illusion of a longer tail, but if they were officially around here I'd say I was 99% sure it was a ML.
My neighbor gave me the same exact description of what she saw a couple months ago. I figured it was the coyote that was eating my fallen pears, but she said it was definitely feline and had a long tail. Weird.
Does anyone have some recommendations for trail cams with good images/video that aren't overly expensive? I'm considering two. I swear I saw a mountain lion exit the yard Friday night and my neighbor told me she thought she saw one go through her yard 2 months ago (I laughed at her at the time).
Idk…it’s pretty common for Rockingham county to get some good rad cooling nights compared to Winni during the fall. At 800ft you start getting into that thermal belt too where any surface heat loss just drains downward into the valleys. We get some pesky cloudiness at times in NW flow too while further downwind toward your area they’re fully dissipated in the downslope.
Anyway…41.0 this morn.
Everyone loves the wild animals until they start interfering with or dangering their lives. I’ve made my opinion on this known many times so I won’t belabor my thoughts again, but wild animals need more protection and habitat than we give them. They’re forced to stretch their habitats to coexist with humans because we keep expanding our urban sprawl. Then we lose our shiat when a bear gets a goat or bird feeder.
Yeah white pines have been nuts this year. I wonder if the late freeze or Feb cold gave them a signal to put out some extra seed cones this year. Maybe it’s just a cyclical thing.