Exploring Lincoln Local Faces, Names, and News from the greater Lincoln, Maine area
Is This The Maine Mountain Lion?
My friend Al has continued to stalk the cat I saw and posted on back in January, and thinks he might have found it. While it definitely is not the creature we caught just a glimpse of the other day, this could be the creature that has spawned many of the mountain lion sightings people from around the area have shared with us. The ears are different, for one, and the coloring is off as well. The question is, what is it? Here are a few more pictures to help you decide – click on each photo to expand it:
A Short Tail
Pointy Ears
Puffy Cheeks
So what is it? Bobcat? Lynx? This could very well be the one I saw that night in January, as I only got a passing glance of it in the ditch. But it most definitely wasn’t the one I saw a few years ago that had a long tail, and it doesn’t look like the animal we just barely caught on camera a week ago. I, for one, and not giving up on finding a true Maine Mountain Lion. I look forward to hearing your comments.
That looks like a bob cat to me, I just got a pic of one a month ago on teh studmill road.
I’d love to see your picture, if you are willing to share Cindi. steve@exploringlincoln.com is my email address.
If you want to see “mountain lions”, go north. They love potato fields. Many sightings up there.
Looks like some kind of a hybrid, cross breed. It’s bigger than a bobcat, has ears like one, and a lynx. But, has the size and the tail of a cougar.
My husband thinks it is a lynx because of the ears! It is a big cat indeed! Go LYNX!!!!
I don’t know my cats that well but it looks like a Lynx. I have never seen a cat in the wild and I am not sure I would want to. Beautiful animal but it scares me! Thanks for sharing.
looks like a lynx….bobcat tails are shorter and their ears are not pointed like that.
looks like a lynx with the tuff of hair on its tip of its ears???????
I Would say this is a lynx. I have never seen one in the wild but my father in law has and this looks like what he described to me. Definetely not a mountain lion. I have seen one of those.