norseman Posted March 4 Admin Author Posted March 4 4 minutes ago, FelixTheCat said: Mountain Lion? I’ve never seen that with Cougars. Like a Leopard does. They are always on the ground. Dunno.
norseman Posted March 5 Admin Author Posted March 5 So my best friend and I talked about this picture. He did find deer hair in a tree one time. Just caked everywhere and above his head too. Never saw the cat and never saw the deer. He said it was a Doug for about 18 inches in diameter. Typically a Doug for that size doesn’t have very big branches. And Doug branches are more brittle than say a Ponderosa pine. So I have no idea where that cat thought he was going with that fawn or whatever it was. In the east? It makes sense to climb a deciduous tree and find a crook to hang out in. Evergreen trees have school marms or what I was always taught to call them where a top will break out and two branches eventually become the new top creating a crook or fork in the tree in which a cat could hang out in. The picture with the Moose calf is in a grove of Aspen. The top is broke out. Aspen trees are all one root system and the adult shoots don’t live super long. And then they begin to rot and fall over or break in half. The old house had them in the backyard and every spring was constant clean up. A flash flood or spring run off 20 feet high to deposit a Moose calf like that with no visible damage to the foliage around it is doubtful I feel. But I wasn’t there to read the sign. 🤷♂️
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