RE: mountain lions in NY??
Bill Yox,
Can't seem to come up with what mammal you're refering to. I have seen many animals in different color phases - Had a cinnimon colored coon hanging around the barn for awhile - I've seen a couple of odd colored black bear too - one was almost a blonde color - Saw that in PA.
If you go down to Kinzua - there's a bald eagle net near the High banks camp ground area of the lake - I was fishing right under it from a canoe last summer - It flew right over me and it took a minute for it to register what I had just seen. Pretty cool.