GR8atta2d

I don't have all the zoom capabilities of some. Just taking the picture as posted. It would be helpful to know the weed height. But I'm kinda with Antler Eater on this one, Looks like a doe relieving herself at firt glance..

GMMAT

I've blown it up. It's a bobcat.

mohunter82

Bobcat no doubt in my mind. we have them everywhere here in Mo. although you wont see alot of them. last year i watched two attack and kill a rabbit. it was pretty cool

kickin_buck

No doubt, that is a bobcat. Cool pic, thanks for sharing it!

wis_rifle_hunter

that is definatly a bobcat. no doubt about it.

wingchaser_labs

Its possible there could be more but most likely it is a wondering tom that has just been cruising since being a juvenile. Bobcats and mt lions are pretty solitary animals except for breeding season. There may be another around the area but not likely to be in this ones territory unless there is a female around which is possible or it may just be a traveling male moving through the area. Considering your location I'd say there isn't but a handle full around the county or even larger area than that and you'll be lucky to see them ever. The one we had around us we only saw twice in a year and a half and there was a male and female around too that others had seen but haven't heard of anyone seein them for about a year now. Hopefully you'll be lucky enough to see him first hand from the treestand or something. Cool to see for those uf us who don't have many around. WCL

Antler Eater

Funny how we look at the exact same photo and see something entirely different. I too enlarged the photo, in doing so I will have to amend my previous statement. Itis not a bedded deer, it is a deer moving through vegetation that is fairly tall.

I can see the left front leg "curled up" high stepping through the foilage as well as the back right leg positioned behind the body in a stepping motion. It's head is turned slightly to the right giving it the appearance of a shorter muzzle than whatwe normallysee whenlooking at a deer(hence a cat like look), but the ears are a dead give away, way to long for a bobcat, and they are pointing about three quarters of the way back ward. The ears are not even close to the shape of a cat.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

....Well that is until I look at the enlargedimage I can only assume everyone else sees...Everything I said above is true, IF one was looking at the same image I was looking at...obviously that isn't the case.

Old Antler stands down in favor of those with better equipment and the knowledge to put it touse.

wingchaser_labs

Lol you deer guessers are funny. Look at the darker ground behind the cat. That is bare ground, no vegetation and the cat is just to the left of it so the vegetation infront of the cat is not very high so it can't be a deer. Plus as I mentioned before look at the cat in comparison to the twisted big tree to the right. Almost the same distance from camera as the cat so I would put the animal at about 30-35" long so not a deer. WCL

2 Lunger

Are you serious??? When I get home I going to enlarge this and post. If that indeed is a deer I'm going to be very disappointed in myself.

2 Lunger

Just zoomed in on a the pic at work. The program won't allow me to save the changes to the photo. "After further review, the play stands." That is a bobcat without a doubt. If anyone thinks that is a deer they need to re-evalute their animal recognition skills.