MCgunner
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Flying bird was the consensus. There are no Javelina there, though there's plenty of hogs of the European phenotype. These are wild boar, studies say 97 percent phenotype, not feral hogs like around here.
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someguy2800
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I actually would have guessed mountain lion but the tail is too short. We have pictures of lion on our cameras from a couple years ago south of Wadena. Lynx don’t have a tail so must be a bobcat.
someguy2800
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I don’t think we have flying squirrels in Minnesota. That’s a red squirrel.
1976B.L.Johns.
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Well,we do have Flying Squirrels in MN. As a kid growing up east of Ely, it was great fun to shine the bird feeders after dark on the little gliding rats.
Still have them because a friend of mine has a cabin about twenty miles up the Fernberg Trail, also east of Ely. One winter night several years ago, looking out his cabin window I asked him if there was any he had seen. Sure enough, same thing, spotted one with a flashlight in his birdfeeder.
Occasionally, they would fly out of the tree when cutting down hazard trees (particularly large dead aspen with woodpecker holes) along snowmobile trails.
I caught one in a pine marten set maybe thirty or so years ago,also.
These squirrels have larger eyes and kinda flat tails. You may not have FS around Brainerd, but trust me, they do exist in northern MN.(Bullwinkles too!)
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/mammals/flyingsquirrel.html
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someguy2800
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Well,we do have Flying Squirrels in MN. As a kid growing up east of Ely, it was great fun to shine the bird feeders after dark on the little gliding rats.
Still have them because a friend of mine has a cabin about twenty miles up the Fernberg Trail, also east of Ely. One winter night several years ago, looking out his cabin window I asked him if there was any he had seen. Sure enough, same thing, spotted one with a flashlight in his birdfeeder.
Occasionally, they would fly out of the tree when cutting down hazard trees (particularly large dead aspen with woodpecker holes) along snowmobile trails.
I caught one in a pine marten set maybe thirty or so years ago,also.
These squirrels have larger eyes and kinda flat tails. You may not have FS around Brainerd, but trust me, they do exist in northern MN.(Bullwinkles too!)
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/mammals/flyingsquirrel.html
Well I'll be darned. Never seen one before. I've spent quite a bit of time up around Ely, Orr, and International Falls. Actually the most moose I have seen have been around Breckenridge.
Patocazador
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The folds of loose skin at his side nails it as a flying squirrel not a red squirrel. Look again at the clear photo and it is apparent.
1976B.L.Johns.
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Have many like this.
someguy2800
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^^^ chupacabra
MCgunner
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1976B.L.Johns.
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That's funny! Young Whitetail. Next picture proved it.
Bandit67
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Been seeing this cat at our hunting camp the last few years. We are debating if it's a bobcat or a Lynx.
Patocazador
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Looks like a big bobcat and a small coon. Lynx have long hair tuft extensions on their ears and very large feet.
I guess I'm just dumb ,but what's the difference between a Bobcat and a Lynx?
someguy2800
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It looks like a lynx with its summer coat to me. Lynx have a shorter tail than bobcat and their rear legs are longer than the front so they kind of lean forward. Bobcat also usually have very visible spots.
der Teufel
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Indeed, we always place a couple of cinder blocks in our tanks to provide a 'climb out' route for small animals.
SoonerMedic
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Bobcat for sure. A very large bobcat. I'm willing to bet it's a female who has honed her hunting skills. She looks well fed.
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Armored farmer
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I do not know what this guy is doing.?
entropy
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Thinks he's a bat? Fell asleep and woke up falling out of the tree?
Naw, probably went after a squirrel , missed and is looking at it scampering off......
Naw, probably went after a squirrel , missed and is looking at it scampering off......
Patocazador
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Not down here. The spots on most southern bobcats that I've killed or seen are on the belly and legs. I tanned the hide of one I shot with my bow because it had spots all over and was unusual.
Also, lynx are rare in Michigan and when reported are mainly in the U.P.
https://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/lists/michigan-cty.html
Here's a northern one that looks sort of like most of them here.
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Bandit67
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Yes, Canada Lynx are very rare in the lower peninsula. The reasons some of us think it could be a Lynx is the coat, the size, the long rear legs and the tail which has a black tip but no rings. We're hoping to get some better pics this year
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