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estulin
Member
Post Number: 3
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Monday, September 1, 2008 - 11:47 pm: | 
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Does Temagami have wild cats, linx or bobcats?
Spotted one swimming across Regan lake. When it got to shore it was definetely a cat of some sort. Pointy triangular ears and moved like a feline.
Any suggestions what I saw?
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brian
Moderator
Post Number: 945
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 10:00 am: |
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There are lynx.
Did it have a long tail? This is indicative of a cougar, for which there have been rare sightings. |
rallupae
Member
Post Number: 49
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 6:36 pm: |
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Interesting - I have not seen such an animal myself. Although I have only traveled the Lady Evelyn lakes route. I wonder if we will see more of these animals in light of increased logging in the area.
estulin, what route were you on when you saw this animal on Regan?
Will be back to Maple Mountain (NorthWest of Regan), but will certainly keep my eyes open. |
micmac
Member
Post Number: 41
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 9:16 pm: |
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If I were a betting man...
I'd put my money on a Lynx - I've spotted a couple over the years in that general area. I was even fortunate enough to catch one watching me as I paddled by - he was very timid; every time we made eye contact, he would crouch down in the marsh grass, but then poke back up to examine me as I drifted by.
The triangular ears are the dead giveaway in my opinion.
Mike |
doug_2
Member
Post Number: 149
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 8:28 pm: |
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Lynx are fairly common in Temagami. I have seen quite few including even in Finlayson Provincial Park, almost in town! The attached picture is a lynx I saw under a picnic table in the park. The park was closed for the season. The lynx was dining on snowshoe hares.  |
brian
Moderator
Post Number: 946
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Friday, September 5, 2008 - 10:13 am: |
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Great shot Doug. |
micmac
Member
Post Number: 43
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 5, 2008 - 10:23 am: |
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I wonder if he'd get along with our two cats at home, Sheriff Roscoe and Daisy Duke...
We could call this guy "Uncle Jesse" to round out the trio... |
curly
Member
Post Number: 142
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 5, 2008 - 11:47 am: |
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We often see lynx in town. Bears, lynx, rabbits, yesterday a fox. |
irishfield
Member
Post Number: 173
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 11:49 pm: |
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We have a lynx on Island 30. Don't have any squirrels or chipmunks anymore!! We see it almost weekly.. swims off our shoreline over to Island 27 on regular basis. First night we saw it it was sitting staring at us from 8 feet.. while sitting in the hot tub. I said to the wife is that a cougar or a lynx behind me and she laughed... then I dropped my shoulder out of the way and she freaked! LOL
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ed
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Post Number: 592
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 8:06 am: |
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Good pictures Irishfield.
I have never seen one in the wild.
I assume the eyes are glowing because your camera automatically used its flash? |
brian
Moderator
Post Number: 967
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 11:12 am: |
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I, too, have never seen one in the wild. Been waiting a long time. |
irishfield
Member
Post Number: 174
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 2:35 pm: |
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Yes flash went off and I didn't have time to play and find a non-flash setting that evening. Everyone wanted to know what we were doing with a camera in the hot tub! LOL In fact while the cat was staring at us I slipped out of the tub (much to the dislike of the wife) went in the cottage.. got the camera and came back out. First shot was just as it got up and turned. It then sat back down in the last shot before we got the tub closed up and went in. Didn't see it again for a month of so.. but wildlife disappeared around us. We had dozens of squirrels/chipmunks last year. This year we only had two red squirrels and about 5 rabbits. Last week I found a rabbit stomach and a paw. Guess it wasn't a lucky rabbits foot afterall !
Last lynx I ever saw in the wild was 1976 Sioux Lookout PPark. |
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