Bobcat

[InletBchDweller]

I get scorpions in my mailbox ALL THE TIME!!!!

Bdarg and the kids found a baby scorpion on the driveway this morning.

After the cute little baby was brought inside to be photographed and interviewed, he was released into the woods, so he can grow and prosper, and plan when he is going to come into our house in the dead of night and sting us.

On a good note- I did not run across any pygmy rattlesnakes when we went exploring in the woods today.

 

[Camp Creek Kid]

Wednesday night I saw a coyote crossing Watersound Parkway at the entrance to the golf course. It was pretty amazing. It looked similar to a German Shepard, but taller and thiner. Now I have a suspicion as to what happened to our two cats, since we live adjacent to the golf course . On Thursday night we saw a huge owl on our neighbor's roof. We heard the hooting and saw the silhouette in the moonlight--spectacular. We've lived here 5 years and this is the first time we've seen these particular animals.

 

[Jdarg]

I get scorpions in my mailbox ALL THE TIME!!!!

 

[Mango]

Wednesday night I saw a coyote crossing Watersound Parkway at the entrance to the golf course. It was pretty amazing. It looked similar to a German Shepard, but taller and thiner. Now I have a suspicion as to what happened to our two cats, since we live adjacent to the golf course . On Thursday night we saw a huge owl on our neighbor's roof. We heard the hooting and saw the silhouette in the moonlight--spectacular. We've lived here 5 years and this is the first time we've seen these particular animals.

I only saw a coyote once at dusk and it was on a highway. They are pretty cool looking. It was sitting and the silhouette of him looked like one of the paintings you see in the West. A pack of them live right behind my house (we abut woods too) and some nights we hear them howling.

 

[Miss Kitty]

:clap_1: Congratulations to Critter Cil on her spottings and her 1,000 posts! You always entertain and educate!!!

 

[Cil]

Wow, thanks for the congrats and the other critter sightings. Aww, bobcat kittens.
Yikes, scorpions in the mailbox. Fortunately, I've read that none of Florida's scorpions give fatal stings--I hope that's true.

Mango, I agree that the deer are smaller here. The crows seem to be, as well, and the woodpeckers are positively anorexic.

Camp Creek, in my experience, coyotes are usually not that big, certainly not taller than a German Shepherd...this reminds me of Barefootguy's home video of the canine critters which might have been coyotes, but might have been red wolves or a combination of the two. But even red wolves aren't all that large. Wow, I wonder just what it was you saw.

I've heard lots of coyotes here, some of them very close, but have not seen any. Used to see them all the time in Denver, they did very well living on the golf course; in the early morning hours they would come check out the alleyways of our neighborhood, getting into leftover pizza and such.

 

[Paula]

I have a friend who photographed an alligator peeking out of the lake at Camp Creek Golf Course. I've heard they call the golf balls "gaiter bait".

 

[Cil]

Camp Creek
Was just reading an article about Eastern coyotes and it said that they are often larger than their scrawny cousin out west, perhaps partly because of mixing it up with the wolf. However, it averages 35-40 pounds, maybe half the size of a German Shepherd or husky.
And they do mention that smaller pets sometimes disappear when coyotes move in.

 

[Jdarg]

We heard them alot a few summers ago in Louisville- they were around for a few months then moved on, apparently after hunting out the area. Turns out they were living in our little sailboat, which was being stored upside down in our back field. When the boys got it out the following spring, there was coyote poop in and around it! (In case you want the yukky details- dog size, lot of hair from their prey :shock: ).

 

[Cil]

(In case you want the yukky details- dog size, lot of hair from their prey :shock: ).

heehee
Thanks for sharing your scat story, Jdarg. I guess coyotes don't waste anything.