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    Lynx or Bobcat?

    Surprised to find this on my trail camera tonight, its mounted outside our bedroom door. Camera is pointing toward the back yard area.

    Are these large bobcats?

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    Re: Lynx or Bobcat?

    Wow, pretty cool video. Nice view too.
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    Re: Lynx or Bobcat?

    It's my understanding that Lynxes are slightly larger. However, I watched a video (on one of the TV nature channels) of a territorial fight between a Bobcat and a Lynx and the Bobcat was the victor...FWIW.

    My wife and I go to a small country church and we've seen two different Bobcats on our way to church, just within a couple of Sundays of each other. One was noticeably larger. I'm guessing one was a male and the other a female (or juvenile). Beautiful cats though. They were both in the darker color phase. The smaller one was about 20 to 25 lbs and the larger one about 35 lbs.
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    Hello,

    Always exciting to see wildlife not normally seen in your yard, especially in more populated areas. Happens every now and then here in NH - fishers (fisher cats), red-tailed hawks, bobcats, red foxes, etc.

    Those look like bobcats to me, due to the shorter legs, longer-ish tail, and huskier build. Tough to tell for sure since it is in "night vision" and their spotting isn't really visible.

    Great capture,

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    Lynx or Bobcat?

    Glad to share guys, thanks for the nice words.

    They are bobcats, lynx have a different build structure rear leg wise (looking at Google).

    I got all excited at first because they looked large to me. Then I remembered... I recently put a shim behind the camera to angle it down a little more than it had been previously. In doing so it changed the viewing angle a bit. Comparing other videos of when my dog walks through the same area, those cats were a little taller than him. My dog is about 23 inches tall at the shoulder.
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    Re: Lynx or Bobcat?

    That is definitely a bobcat, not a lynx. A lynx has a very distinct tuft of fur above the ears. You can't miss it if you know what to look for. They also have longer legs, particularly the rear legs, than a bobcat. The pelvic and rear leg anatomy is pretty different.

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    Re: Lynx or Bobcat?

    Quote Originally Posted by MikeCh View Post
    Glad to share guys, thanks for the nice words.

    They are bobcats, lynx have a different build structure rear leg wise (looking at Google).
    That is correct.

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    Re: Lynx or Bobcat?

    We had bobcats living near us when we lived outside Seattle. They gobbled several of our house-cats. I saved one of our cats from getting gobbled when I saw him run up a tree—I thought a coyote had chased him, but when I looked up the tree there was the bobcat half-way up, and our pet near the very top. After I finally got the bobcat to run off it took 8 hours before our pet came down out of that tree. Also had a couple of them walk by me when I was doing yardwork, they were just on the opposite side of a small berm I had built, maybe 15’ away. They just sauntered past in broad daylight.

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    Re: Lynx or Bobcat?

    We had bobcats living near us when we lived outside Seattle. They gobbled several of our house-cats. I saved one of our cats from getting gobbled when I saw him run up a tree—I thought a coyote had chased him, but when I looked up the tree there was the bobcat half-way up, and our pet near the very top. After I finally got the bobcat to run off it took 8 hours before our pet came down out of that tree. Also had a couple of them walk by me when I was doing yardwork, they were just on the opposite side of a small berm I had built, maybe 15’ away. They just sauntered past in broad daylight.

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    Re: Lynx or Bobcat?

    Oops, sorry for the double post!

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