A retired National Parks employee spotted a pair of lynx in western Colorado and managed to get a photo of them, which has now gone viral on the web.
According to this story, lynx had disappeared from Colorado back in 1973, but an ambitious restoration program saw over 200 of the animals released into the wild. Between 2003 and 2010 there were over 141 confirmed lynx kittens born in the state, and it appears that the species is making a comeback in the wild.
Here's the photo taken in Colorado:
On a slightly less exciting note, here's a photo I took of a lynx at the Nashville Zoo a couple of years ago.
Anyone interested in a print of this cat, or any of my other nature, wildlife, landscapes, or bird photos is welcome (!) to go to my website for a shopping spree:
6 comments:
There was a cougar caught on a trail cam less than a mile from my place last month. The DNR has claimed as long as I can remember that there weren't any cougars in the state. In the last few years there have been many pictures thanks to trail cams. They denied the scat that was found over the last twenty years or so, but they can't deny the pictures.
How long do you think before they decide that the lynx are a nuisance and open a lynx hunting season?
Cougars are coming back to Maine. Numerous sightings the last few years.
if you kill the wolves to save the moose so you can kill the moose - you live in Alaska
the Ol'Buzzard
I like the pictures, a lot.
Thanks Fringe! Well, thanks for the second shot, I had nothing to do with the first one.
Good yarn here:
King Salmon Air Force Station, Alaska - at the top of the Aleutian peninsula going out to a midshift at the mobile radar approach control driving a single shift like a 69 or something Dodge power wagon - 4WD, V-8, and standard shift. I am a short legged fucker - so, putting in the clutch demanded leaping off the seat - scared the shit out of those riding with me -
Anyhow, we came across an old taxiway and my headlights exposed two yellow eyes! I stopped and slowly moved closer. Damn it, wheres was that Canom A-1 when I needed it!
There, oh shit, twenty yards from us was a Lynx eating a snow shoe rabbit. The animal was magnificant.I waited as long as I could to still make relief and then honked the horn and the cat fled.
As to cougars - We havs had sightings and on trail cams that confirm that cougars are here.
And, the smaller cat - the Bobcat is seeing a substantial repopulation here in Indiana as is the River Otter.
Some things we get right!
Ron
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