I had walked into the edge of an old burn, and was mostly just there to be a tourist, but I called for moose, and was watching for things edible...
So I'm standing, looking for movement, and I hear thump,thump,thump kinda soft through the bush behind me. I look over and see a rabbit hopping along, about 10 feet back. It's moving at a pretty good pace. Really surprising how little noise it was making, for the speed.
About a minute later, I hear a twig snap off to my right, I look, and see a flash of grey moving towards me.
Really, I figured I was about to put a scare onto a coyote (Funny as hell when you get them with a "BOO!") but instead, a Lynx materialized out of the brush.
The cat was following the general direction that he rabbit had gone, looking like it was going to walk right up to me, then it turned down a bit better trail, and walked about 4 feet behind me. As I turned to look over my other shoulder, I scraped a willow that was between it and I, and it froze (both of us!), it stared at my legs for about 30 seconds, then disappeared in the general direction the rabbit went, not looking at all concerned.
About 20 minutes later, as the light was going down, I walked out to the road, maybe 20 yards away, and walked down about 200 yards to see if there were any last-light chickens out, and I looked back towards where I came from, and there was another lynx, just coming out of the bush from the other side from where I was for the evening. It was sitting on the road for a few minutes and calling into the bush, and another was calling back. I figure it was a family crew out trying their luck for grouse and rabbits as well.
Pretty damn neat to see. Kinda made my evening! Figure the one I saw up close was a youngster, but still darn cool stuff!
Cheers
Trev
So I'm standing, looking for movement, and I hear thump,thump,thump kinda soft through the bush behind me. I look over and see a rabbit hopping along, about 10 feet back. It's moving at a pretty good pace. Really surprising how little noise it was making, for the speed.
About a minute later, I hear a twig snap off to my right, I look, and see a flash of grey moving towards me.
Really, I figured I was about to put a scare onto a coyote (Funny as hell when you get them with a "BOO!") but instead, a Lynx materialized out of the brush.
The cat was following the general direction that he rabbit had gone, looking like it was going to walk right up to me, then it turned down a bit better trail, and walked about 4 feet behind me. As I turned to look over my other shoulder, I scraped a willow that was between it and I, and it froze (both of us!), it stared at my legs for about 30 seconds, then disappeared in the general direction the rabbit went, not looking at all concerned.
About 20 minutes later, as the light was going down, I walked out to the road, maybe 20 yards away, and walked down about 200 yards to see if there were any last-light chickens out, and I looked back towards where I came from, and there was another lynx, just coming out of the bush from the other side from where I was for the evening. It was sitting on the road for a few minutes and calling into the bush, and another was calling back. I figure it was a family crew out trying their luck for grouse and rabbits as well.
Pretty damn neat to see. Kinda made my evening! Figure the one I saw up close was a youngster, but still darn cool stuff!
Cheers
Trev
