Let this list remind you of all the reasons why you should be mindful of your surroundings in the state of New York! During these uncertain times, please keep safety in mind and consider adding destinations to your bucket list to visit at a later date. Mountain Lion. One of many on-going debates here in the state of New York, some firmly believe that mountain lions are nowhere to be found here - while others say they still see them lurking around even in recent years. Throughout New York's history, tales of the DEC releasing small populations of mountain lions into areas like the Adirondacks and the Catskill Mountains to control things like coyote and deer populations have swirled around our heads.
Most of the time those these rumors are debunked, but could these enormous cats still be hiding in the forests of New York?
It's certainly talked about enough that we'd tell you to keep an eye out! So, here's the thing, if you happen to think you maybe, sort of, possibly spotted a mountain lion in New York, there's a good chance that it was actually a bobcat. To keep reading please join our mailing list.
Return to your home site. Search Nearby. Get the news you need to know on the go. It had a cat's face and ears. And it was jet black. They all felt it was about the size of a Labrador Retriever. Earl went over to the house two days later, hoping to find some tracks. Despite what his daughters had described, he was still skeptical.
Well, he found tracks. Lots of them, if the truth be known. He followed them for quite a distance, observing them in snow drifts and muddy places. And Earl knows his animal tracks very well. Photos of the tracks were taken, by the way. He described those tracks to me. He said they were about three fingers wide roughly three inches , and a little longer possibly three and a half to four inches long. And they were definitely cat tracks. That kind of sighting is very hard to debunk, but I think I can explain it.
A woodchuck hunter hunting a field near Rushville saw something come out of the brush. It was a large, tawny-colored cat. Its body was around four feet long, and it had a long, slender tail about three feet long. He watched it for quite a while until it finally walked out of his line of sight. And he observed this animal through crystal clear hunting optics.
There is absolutely no doubt in his mind he was looking at a cougar. A resident of Canandaigua saw a cougar. Not once, but twice! The first time he was on his way back from Rochester on Route This is a follow up to my post above. Well I have not seen another mountain lion since the dead one I saw on i I was just reading the start of this thread and read the one from Marathon. Well, Marathon is only 8. The description sounds so similar to what I wrote and to what the other guy see my post above wrote and said.
Wish someone would explore the woods off I I keep doing google searches looking for evidence that others saw what I did on the side of the road that day. This compare this post to mine a few posts above: " Posted by Mark orthoboy2 hotmail. It was pounds, catlike round face, round tail that swept up at the end, very smooth fur, and very muscular.
I could see the rear quarter muscles from yards away. My only question was it was the color of a yellow lab.
Not the color I thought a mountain lion to be. When I first saw it sneaking along a field edge thats what I thought it was, a lab. When it got closer I realized it was not a dog. I checked for tracks but couldn't find anything other than deer tracks.
Come on. No, lots of people don't mistake one for the other. The animal I saw had beautiful think very dense or heavy fur. My uncle saw a mountain lion in East Chatham late at night, crossing the road in front of him, in He spent some time out West where they're more common and had seen many of them there; no mistaking it, from his point of view. He had the same experience talking with the DEC that others on this thread had - they denied they existed here. I have also heard that mountain lions were released in the mountains around here by DEC, in very limited numbers, for deer population control.
Can't say how true it is but I do hear that from a lot of folks. I have posted these places hoping to hear from others who saw what I did.
The color was very close to the red you would see on a domestic red cat-solid color not spotted and not merely tan with reddish tint-clearly orange red. Now, I know nothing about wild animals but was surprised by the animals she listed because they were the sort of animal I assumed existed only in places like Africa I've got the suburban NY-view of the world or the zoo.
I began to Google the various animals she suggested to compare to what I saw. In fact, I would have been quite surprised to hear that they existed in this country at all. I posted a description of what I had seen on Topic in the hope someone else had seen it and could let me know what it was. Then I started to Google more seriously because it began to bother me that I could not figure this out.
At that point I found this post ", PM 1 Crochet Posts: Mountain lion sighting First, let me state that I have all my faculties, excellent eye sight, and am not given to exaggerations. An absolutely beautiful animal, well-muscled, excellent specimen. Up until now, whenever I've seen reports of sightings, I've taken them with a grain of salt.
If you did not see it but is familiar with the wild life around there, any ideas? I've heard reports of a FisherCat in the area, and several reports of them in the region.
What you're describing sounds more like one of those than anything else. They're a vicious critter, and will clean out a henhouse in a night. Not afraid of dogs, coyotes, or much else, either. Years ago I saw what I believed then, and still do, to be a cougar, but nothing like that in years. A friend told me recently that a mountain lion was captured on a 'wildlife camera' in Kingston.
They've also been seen in Saugerties. My dad was an avid hunter an spent many days and nights in the woods back in the 70 an 80's. He coon hunted extensively. One night his dogs treed something but it defiantly wasn't a coon. He could tell by the way they were barking and growling. He heard a huge ruckus of the dogs barking suddenly the one female screamed in pain and came running to him but the male took off after something and didn't return home till the next morning.
He had some injuries deep gnashing but nothing life threatening. My dad was also followed during the day while out squirrel hunting he could hear the crashing of sticks but only slight flashes of a brownish color fur, ,when he stopped walking it stopped,he was in a heavy thicket so couldn't get a clear look.
Then one spring standing in his front yard he saw what he thought was a cougar crossing the hay field and then across the road.
It left a foot print in the mud. He called DEC they came took plaster of it but refused to confirm it was a cougar. This was early or I wish he was still with us to finally see others are now confirming what he had said for yrs. Just saying but some of you encountered Bigfoot. The screams like a woman being murdered the story above about being followed and the sound stopping when you do.
I totally believe you have seen or heard Mountain Lions PA gas them too but some of the experiences are Bigfoot. I saw a black panther in the Catskills Mts. It bounded across the road, only touching the center of the road once. I will never forget what i saw and yes people dismiss it for proof. I talked to and old timer who grew up in that area and he confirmed his own sightings over the years.
They Live! Last week my neighbor was in my backyard trying to get some pesky messy geese to fly away when he spotted a large animal walking along the grass line next to the woods behind his house. He was stunned by the size of the animal as it was only 60 yards away from him. He noted the animal had a large rounded head with rounded ears and was bigger than a large dog.
He also noted the catlike gate of the animal. The animal appeared focused on a trail of a possible prey. At 40 yards away from his position the animal turned into the woods onto a deer trail. When the animal turned into the woods he noticed the elongated body and an extremely long tail on the animal. The animal was camel colored. I would also like to add my observation of the disappearance of morning and evening sightings of multiple deer crossing my property along with the lack of signs of coyotes in the last month.
I also took a picture of a large scat that was found on my neighbors back yard. It is probably coyote or possibly a mountain lion. In I went to a summer camp in Mountaindale, NY. One day some of the counselors reported that a townie claimed that he had seen a mountain lion locally.
I don't think people have ever stopped claiming to see them. I don't think they've ever been completely gone and new ones migrate in to add to the population.
I had a mountain lion cross the road while driving from hunting camp, location was on pole road, next to fir brook and blue hill near willowemac.
New York. Cat crossed the road from the brook on right bounded across with one leap in the center and clearing the road into the left ditch. Amazing sight and never will forget this beautiful creature. My only sighting in 51 years of hunting. Beautiful thing, but surprising! I live in Rochester, N. Last year in , I saw a black Mountain Lion in my back yard. I have homing pigeons, It was laying in the grass staring at the homing pigeons, it rose up from the grass as I walked towards it, when I relealized what it was, I walked backwards away from it, it slowly sank back it the grass it was tall we had not cut it yet.
I went into the house called my dad on the phone and said Dad there is a monster in the backyard. Around July 10, , my wife and I were driving west on I near Syracuse. Beautiful animal! They may be or have been rare, but my friend and I percent saw a black panther in Windsor, NY in the early eighties. I know other residents in the Windsor area who saw them and have video I wish they'd share it online somewhere.
It was not a large house cat, it was unmistakable. My Son use to come up to a Farm that my ex husband had.. I went right home and got on the cougar rescue site They were from a Cougar Kirkwood, New York But they will never admit to it, cause then you'd be able to hold them accountable if someone gets killed They been doing it for year's to thin out the Deer populations Due to the Car Insurance Companies complaint's I absolutely believe black panthers are in Allegany and Steuben NY I grew up on Webb's crossing in Hornell where a previous poster commented.
I heard them in the woods. I saw one one day with a friend, it was big, large dog sized, black with a long tail. Not a cougar or a bob cat. I don't care what the dnr says I'm not crazy. That area has so much super remote places they have lots of space to hide. In the late s black panther were all over Allegany county and troublesome, it's in the town histories. Back in the early s I was getting ready for work , I lived at the edge of the Alabama swamps in East Shelby New York I heard what sounded like a small child screaming from behind my neighbors house.
I told my wife to get my rifle , I went out onto my front porch and seen my neighbors cat trying to fight with a cougar it had to be at least 8 foot long from nose to tail , There was no way I could have missed him from where I was. It turned and walked into the swamps below my home. A couple days later we went to the Orleans County 4H fair I told the conservation officer what I seen he told me it was impossible because there isn't any here , I also told him if it would of went towards the cat I would of shot it.
He told me then you would go to jail for killing an indangered animal, I asked how could that be if there isn't any around here. He said I was just a smartass and to stop bothering him. We stared looking intently trying to identify the animal. As we neared closer to it we could see that it wasn't a Dog, Deer the body was low and long.
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