Prints in the snow

[wannahavehens]

any idea what these prints are from??

 

[ladybug4ut1]

looks like bob cat or cougar?

 

[HorseFeathers]

Terrible at prints, but my uneducated guess would be coyote/wolf or some sort of big cat... or fisher cat, what do those prints look like?

 

[wannahavehens]

It is so strange. We are in upstate NY and nothing like that around. These are right outside our back door!!

 

[Chirpy]

If there are no claw marks showing (and I don't see any in the picture), then I'd guess big cat also; bobcat or cougar.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Check these out:

http://homepages.dordt.edu/~mahaffy/mtlion/print_id/cougar_print_id.html

 

[HorseFeathers]

OooohKAY! Guess it's a cougar, then! Thanks Nifty!

(Better watch your chickens!)

 

[WriterofWords]

You got a big kitty up there!

 

[wannahavehens]

WOW - it sure does look like a cougar. I've heard of bear around here, but not big cats! Thank you all.

 

[Poultra]

DH saw one on the way home one night a couple of months ago. I may have seen one shortly after on the same road but I didn't get a good glimpse of it. This was on Old Pre-Emption Road near the Ontario Co/Wayne Co line (NY). So, umm, yeah, I guess we have them but if you ask the DEC, we don't.