saw a Mountain Lion yesterday
would have said 'cougar', but then some of you would have missed the point.
LOL
this was a BIG cougar.... i'd say, at least 6 feet long without the tail.....
it was about 450 feet above us, on the side of a canyon that we use for daily exercise, close to the neighborhood.
stalking thru the snow (we got a little less than a foot this past friday/saturday)
about half hour later, we witnessed it attack a 2-point buck in some thick scrub brush.
it missed, and did a shoulder roll across the buck, and stopped..
the buck, kicked off and up the hill about 25 feet away, and stopped.
the cougar stalked backwards, and i can only guess it went around a knoll just behind and above, snuck around the other side of the ridgeline where the buck was heading, and waited.
the buck, stood dead stock still, for at least 20 minutes, before it very slowly started heading back up the hill.
we didn't wait any longer to watch, but still, we're only 2 miles up the canyon from the entrance, and those cougars are always up there, somewhere.
would have said 'cougar', but then some of you would have missed the point.
LOL
this was a BIG cougar.... i'd say, at least 6 feet long without the tail.....
it was about 450 feet above us, on the side of a canyon that we use for daily exercise, close to the neighborhood.
stalking thru the snow (we got a little less than a foot this past friday/saturday)
about half hour later, we witnessed it attack a 2-point buck in some thick scrub brush.
it missed, and did a shoulder roll across the buck, and stopped..
the buck, kicked off and up the hill about 25 feet away, and stopped.
the cougar stalked backwards, and i can only guess it went around a knoll just behind and above, snuck around the other side of the ridgeline where the buck was heading, and waited.
the buck, stood dead stock still, for at least 20 minutes, before it very slowly started heading back up the hill.
we didn't wait any longer to watch, but still, we're only 2 miles up the canyon from the entrance, and those cougars are always up there, somewhere.
