urban trail cam pics..

[Cray Paper]

We live in a very developed area south of Everette Boeing field in Everett WA, on the border of Mill Creek. For those that are familiar with the area, we are in the Pioneer Trails area. My wife was noticing on the local FB page and neighborhood what ever its called site bobcats and black bears are near our home last month. I had a couple of game cameras and put one out about a month ago in the green belt behind our home. Our cats and local squirrels kept knocking it over as it was attached to the top of the fence in the greenbelt.

I pulled it this morning and reviewed the photos and videos. Guess we have a female bobcat patrolling the neighborhood. I let my adjacent neighbors know, they were more than a little upset. One asked what should we do. I told him she was hunting rabbits and between her and one of our female cats they are gone, so the bobcat is gone too. But your 2 pound pocket dog should probably stay inside incase our cat named Penny decides he is a rabbit!

 

[Dunerking]

Awesome,great to see predators doing their job!

 

[Cray Paper]

Awesome,great to see predators doing their job!

Agreed, and I love wild felines, but have never seen a bobcat / Lynx in my yard before. That female cat is about 3' long, but really skinny. The males are much bigger. What size dog what it take to fend a cat like that off? I know our two 10 - 20 pound dogs would be no match, neither would our neighbors 2 pound dog.

 

[DWC]

My neighbors came over a few months ago and said our dog wouldn’t stop barking when we left for dinner. We have cameras that cover the front and sides of the house and never see or hear him. I put a game camera on the back fence. Sure enough it was a damn coyote. Comes to the fence to check him out. Thankfully it’s a 10’ wall and 4’ fence. . I keep meaning to put it in the wash next to neighborhood to see what cruises down the water. I’m sure it’ll be pretty busy.

 

[Cray Paper]

My neighbors came over a few months ago and said our dog wouldn’t stop barking when we left for dinner. We have cameras that cover the front and sides of the house and never see or hear him. I put a game camera on the back fence. Sure enough it was a damn coyote. Comes to the fence to check him out. Thankfully it’s a 10’ wall and 4’ fence. . I keep meaning to put it in the wash next to neighborhood to see what cruises down the water. I’m sure it’ll be pretty busy.

We have them here too. I've heard from neighbors coyotes can get over a 5' fence and have zero qualms about snatching a smaller dog and eating it. Last year a pack killed something one house down in the greenbelt during the summer, we had the windows open and their vocalizing was super eerie. I have seen them walking down our street at 4:00am in the morning, one was big, like small German Sheppard sized. It was a little foggy and I was coming up to a stop sign 1 block down and messing with my phone, initially thought a neighbors dog got loose, as it passed in front of my truck I realized it was a coyote, almost put the pedal down and ran the fucker over but it was to late.

 

[Taboma]

We have them here too. I've heard from neighbors coyotes can get over a 5' fence and have zero qualms about snatching a smaller dog and eating it. Last year a pack killed something one house down in the greenbelt during the summer, we had the windows open and their vocalizing was super eerie. I have seen them walking down our street at 4:00am in the morning, one was big, like small German Sheppard sized. It was a little foggy and I was coming up to a stop sign 1 block down and messing with my phone, initially thought a neighbors dog got loose, as it passed in front of my truck I realized it was a coyote, almost put the pedal down and ran the fucker over but it was to late.

Occasionally a dog meets his maker around here chasing a lone coyote, only to find himself surrounded by the pack after a short chase. They are very intelligent when it comes to hunting, I watch them on my game cams use a similar tactic for catching rabbits. For rabbits one coyote will chase and herd the rabbit right into the waiting group.

They showed a news clip the other night of a local bobcat climbing a tree to escape a group of large coyotes. Four coyotes were circling the base of the tree, then one coyote started climbing the tree. I wouldn't have believed it unless I'd watched the video.
I was amazed how well the coyote scaled that tree and the bobcat had to keep going higher and higher. Finally the bobcat decided fuck this, whole demeaner and body language changed, back arched in a full shit-kicking stance, coyote started wavering and seemed to be considering a tactical retreat.
I told my wife, if that coyote sticks his face up any higher, he's going to get sliced and diced --- and damn, just when the rumble was getting good, wouldn't ya know it, they ended the segment for a commercial.
Around here I've got yotes and bobcats, with five game cams set up around the house and grove, never seen them interact, and everybody ignores the Skunk.

 

[Cray Paper]

You have much more intelligent rabbits (and voters!) than we do in western WA. Our rabbits first line of defense is to sit still until something is right on top of it then run in a zig zag pattern. Cats and dogs love that challenge. Our miniature schnauzer "12 pound dog" on a leash has almost caught them so many times it's ridiculous. One of our cats ( Penny, or Pennywise as my wife calls her) loves dragging rabbits home through the dog door and eating them in the house, some are about the same size as her. I've seen it on the ADT cams, she drags them in by the back of the neck like a kitten and they go limp. Game over once inside the house.

When coyotes come through our neighborhood the rabbit population drops to zero, only takes a couple of days.

 

[Gramps]

Coyotes are an everyday thing here, every once in awhile they get lead poisoning from me. The critters that I hate to have around is the damn mountain lions.....IN MY YARD!!!! We had one walk up on our deck and I will not hesitate to "remove" them. A few years back the fish and game peeps would issue 40 lion permits a year for this area....they stopped the permits a couple of years ago and now they are thick around here again.

 

[4Waters]

Here is a thread started awhile back that I thought should be in the lounge.

Show me your cool trail camera shots!!

I'm new to this, and really like the results I got. I'll try to keep this active, but I only go up to check on the cabin once a month at most. So far it's been working great. Other than tree branches blowing in front of the lens or rain. How do you guys set up your cameras? Also, which ones do...

www.riverdavesplace.com

 

[Cray Paper]

We have a ton of raptors in our area, yes some of the Ford variety but I am talking about birds. We have had a great horned owl in our cedar tree in the back yard last spring, bald eagle on the ground in our backyard, several Barred Owls, a fucking obnoxious mating pair of Merlin falcons that decided to nest and breed in the park across the street from us. Northern flickers, neighbors tree filled with 6 pileated red headed woodpeckers, a huge community of crows and Ravens every once in a while,. Sea Gulls that will poach any dog food left over in the yard, even seen Turkey Vultures (huge birds!) a short distance away. Wife and I took the dogs on a walk last year and a Barred owl was in the trees totally hunting the small dogs. Blue Herons are also abundant here, one day I came home early and one of these giants was trying to get through the netting on my Japanese neighbors koi pound.

 

[beertruck]

In Mass (Cape Cod) we have Coywolfs, it's a cross breed between coyotes and wolves. I can hear the howling some nights, so I set up a trail cam in the yard. This is the biggest one Ive seen.

 

[sirbob]

2 nights ago -

iCloud Photos - Apple iCloud

View, organize, and share photos and videos with iCloud Photos on the web. Changes will sync across your devices with iCloud.

share.icloud.com

 

[BabyRay]

No pictures, but we had a lynx looking in the sliding door at our vacation home in Greenwater (near Crystal Mountain). My wife was about to open the door to pet what she thought was a neighbor’s house cat, when I realized what it was and stopped her.

I do have plenty of elk pictures, as they often wandered through our neighborhood.