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Title: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: bobcat on August 21, 2012, 10:33:41 PM: Need someone with some good eyes to tell me what the heck this fast moving critter is. I've recently gotten pictures of deer (doe, fawns, and a buck), coyotes, and a bobcat at this location. If I had to guess I'd say this is a fawn, but it's moving so fast it's hard to say. Plus I didn't know a fawn could run that fast.

What do you think? (I cut the video down to only about 4 seconds)

http://s1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/bdan68/ONeill%20East%202012/?action=view&current=WGI_0005c.mp4 (http://s1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/bdan68/ONeill%20East%202012/?action=view&current=WGI_0005c.mp4)
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: carpsniperg2 on August 21, 2012, 10:38:03 PM: Dang that sob was hauling balls!!! :chuckle:

I think it's a bobcat. Looks like it has spots and the tail looks to be short with a lot of white on it.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: bobcat on August 21, 2012, 10:39:21 PM: Here are some other videos from the same location:

http://s1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/bdan68/ONeill%20East%202012/?action=view&current=WGI_0037.mp4 (http://s1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/bdan68/ONeill%20East%202012/?action=view&current=WGI_0037.mp4)

http://s1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/bdan68/ONeill%20East%202012/?action=view&current=WGI_0040c.mp4 (http://s1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/bdan68/ONeill%20East%202012/?action=view&current=WGI_0040c.mp4)

http://s1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/bdan68/ONeill%20East%202012/?action=view&current=WGI_0047.mp4 (http://s1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/bdan68/ONeill%20East%202012/?action=view&current=WGI_0047.mp4)
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: huntnnw on August 21, 2012, 10:41:13 PM: bobcat
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Kola16 on August 21, 2012, 10:45:31 PM: I am also going to say bobcat.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: bobcat on August 21, 2012, 10:47:39 PM: Well, here is a bobcat:

http://s1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/bdan68/ONeill%20East%202012/?action=view&current=WGI_0020c.mp4 (http://s1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/bdan68/ONeill%20East%202012/?action=view&current=WGI_0020c.mp4)
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Kola16 on August 21, 2012, 10:50:28 PM: No bobcats in the day :dunno:
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: bobcat on August 21, 2012, 10:54:09 PM: Quote from: Kola16 on August 21, 2012, 10:50:28 PM
No bobcats in the day :dunno:

No, that's the only video I got of it.

Lots of coyotes in that area. I'd guess the bobcat might feel a bit outnumbered.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Kola16 on August 21, 2012, 10:58:05 PM: Quote from: bobcat on August 21, 2012, 10:54:09 PM
Quote from: Kola16 on August 21, 2012, 10:50:28 PM
No bobcats in the day :dunno:

No, that's the only video I got of it.

IMO you have two now :chuckle:
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: bobcat on August 21, 2012, 10:59:15 PM: Quote from: Kola16 on August 21, 2012, 10:58:05 PM
Quote from: bobcat on August 21, 2012, 10:54:09 PM
Quote from: Kola16 on August 21, 2012, 10:50:28 PM
No bobcats in the day :dunno:

No, that's the only video I got of it.

IMO you have two now :chuckle:

If that is a bobcat running by, I bet it was being chased by a coyote, or two. :chuckle:
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Bigluke1981 on August 21, 2012, 11:00:06 PM: Boy it is really tough to tell. I have played it over and over several times and paused along the way and still cant tell %100. :dunno: Nice area and videos though :tup:
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Kola16 on August 21, 2012, 11:02:57 PM: I am pretty sure it is a bobcat. Maybe even a lynx :dunno: If it were a yote, I think we would be able to see the long tail.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: bobcat on August 21, 2012, 11:06:52 PM: No lynx around here, this was in Thurston County.

By the way, I forgot to mention, that one video where the coyote picks up something by the stump, it picked up a candy bar that I had tossed out there when I was there 2 weeks prior to that. It was an old smashed Snickers bar that I found in my backpack, just thought I'd see what might eat it.

There's another video where you can see the coyote actually eating it, but I had trouble uploading it to Photobucket for some reason.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: MadHatter on August 21, 2012, 11:09:27 PM: Based on the other videos and looking at the size of the other animals in proportion to the area it ran though it looks to be on the smaller side maybe 4-6" tall, and even then I think some of its height is from it coming off the ground while bounding... Could be a rabbit hauling ass, the bounds look pretty consistent with that... :dunno: Although that size is based on that stump in the middle of all the videos being about 14-18" wide...

Just using this video for the mechanics of a rabbit running...
Running Rabbit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlOMJPcvrEE#)
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Kola16 on August 21, 2012, 11:13:28 PM: Who said lynx :chuckle:

A rabbit :o It looks to big to me. Although it shouldn't be ruled out.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: JCKILLSHOT on August 21, 2012, 11:19:07 PM: I thought it was a rabbit as well.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: bobcat on August 21, 2012, 11:21:49 PM: Rabbit? Hmm... never thought about that. Never seen one in the area or got a picture of one, and I had a camera in that general vicinity last year though spring, summer, and fall. But it's possible.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: carpsniperg2 on August 21, 2012, 11:33:24 PM: With bobcats blessings :chuckle: I opened this in my video editing software. Slowed it down frame by frame and got a couple snap shots. Way to big for a rabbit. The first pic looks like a longer head like a yote. The 2nd looks like a bobcat. By the color and size and shape of the tail.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: FC on August 21, 2012, 11:39:07 PM: Looks like a bobcat to me.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: carpsniperg2 on August 21, 2012, 11:41:47 PM: I kinda thought that as well. But if you look in the first pic you can see black tips on the ears, and in the 2nd pic the tail is very short not bushy and has a white patch on it.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: hillbillyhunting on August 22, 2012, 07:49:35 AM: I was also thinking somthing smaller... maybe rabbit, otter, or somthing else. It looks dark in color unlike the bobcat in the other video. :twocents:
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Dhoey07 on August 22, 2012, 07:53:18 AM: Runs like a rockchuck, so im going to say some kind of varmint. Maybe a mountain beaver?
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Curly on August 22, 2012, 07:55:40 AM: My vote is a young coyote.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: rasbo on August 22, 2012, 07:57:25 AM: to big for a wabbit,bobby Im thinking
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Woodchuck on August 22, 2012, 08:08:43 AM: Baby sasquatch :dunno:
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: mfswallace on August 22, 2012, 08:23:37 AM: After pausing just as it enters the screen....

Fawn-elongated face, white spots, black tip on white tail.... :twocents:
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: PlateauNDN on August 22, 2012, 08:32:24 AM: Quote from: Woodchuck on August 22, 2012, 08:08:43 AM
Baby sasquatch :dunno:

:yeah: X's 2
Title: Re: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: MadHatter on August 22, 2012, 09:20:43 AM: Quote from: wastickslinger on August 22, 2012, 08:12:32 AM
chupacabra

That was my second guess... Third was a toddler sasquatch...

Sent from my sniper hide...
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: notellumcreek on August 22, 2012, 09:30:46 AM: Quote from: mfswallace on August 22, 2012, 08:23:37 AM
After pausing just as it enters the screen....

Fawn-elongated face, white spots, black tip on white tail.... :twocents:
:yeah: It reminds me of a deer bounding kinda... but god damn that things is cookin'!
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: KopperBuck on August 22, 2012, 09:45:43 AM: Definitely an adolescent manbearpig.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Huntbear on August 22, 2012, 10:00:02 AM: As soon as you click on the play button... right in the middle of the frame, something moved... and was gone... then this screaming mimi comes rocketing through......

I am thinking Bobcat...
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Curly on August 22, 2012, 10:06:43 AM: Quote from: Huntbear on August 22, 2012, 10:00:02 AM
As soon as you click on the play button... right in the middle of the frame, something moved... and was gone... then this screaming mimi comes rocketing through......

I am thinking Bobcat...

Yeah, there was definitely something there and it set-off the motion detector........then this thing came racing through. Maybe it is a bobcat.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Blacktail Sniper on August 22, 2012, 10:15:45 AM: If you look when the critter disappears behind the stump on the left side, as it passes out of view on the right side of the stump it is noticeably lighter in color.

Possibly two critters? The fastmover being the darker colored one. The lighter one behind the stump trips the camera, then the other comes blasting into the frame and they both exit together?
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: hillbillyhunting on August 22, 2012, 10:52:49 AM: Quote from: Blacktail Sniper on August 22, 2012, 10:15:45 AM
If you look when the critter disappears behind the stump on the left side, as it passes out of view on the right side of the stump it is noticeably lighter in color.

Possibly two critters? The fastmover being the darker colored one. The lighter one behind the stump trips the camera, then the other comes blasting into the frame and they both exit together?
:yeah: that is what it looks like to me
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Dhoey07 on August 22, 2012, 11:45:07 AM: Quote from: Huntbear on August 22, 2012, 10:00:02 AM
As soon as you click on the play button... right in the middle of the frame, something moved... and was gone... then this screaming mimi comes rocketing through......

I am thinking Bobcat...

Is that a Joe Dirt reference? Screaming mimis, gut busters, hoosker do's, hoosker don'ts, nipsy daisers with or without the scooter stick
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: bobcat on August 22, 2012, 05:06:22 PM: I did get one video of a squirrel. I wonder if it could be a bobcat chasing the squirrel?
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Huntbear on August 22, 2012, 05:16:21 PM: Quote from: bobcat on August 22, 2012, 05:06:22 PM
I did get one video of a squirrel. I wonder if it could be a bobcat chasing the squirrel?

You may have hit the jackpot there. :tup:
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: bobcat on August 22, 2012, 05:20:27 PM: Next time I go in there, maybe I'll take a walk over that way and look for a pile of squirrel hair on the ground.

I wonder if it was a cat, if it would've eaten it on the spot?
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Miles on August 22, 2012, 05:26:43 PM: Send Dman a PM and get the number to his cat specialist. :chuckle:
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: CAMPMEAT on August 22, 2012, 05:28:22 PM: .................sister ?
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: deaner on August 22, 2012, 09:16:55 PM: id say that was definitely two different animals, if you pay attention to what runs right of the stump youll barely see both of them. first one larger and more brown, second one smaller and greyish. cant say what they were but but it was two critters
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Heredoggydoggy on August 22, 2012, 09:51:35 PM: Bobcat scared a bird from behind the stump while the cat was after something else. Just the way I saw things on the quick flash-by. Last week I got 3 pictures of a Robin studying my camera.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: bobcat on August 22, 2012, 10:21:16 PM: I got the video of the coyote eating the Snickers bar uploaded to youtube, but for some reason it turned the bottom half of it yellow/green. But at least you can get the idea. Dang coyote with a sweet tooth. :chuckle:

WGI 0048 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpot5Glo7d0#)
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: bobcat on August 22, 2012, 10:22:56 PM: And here's the video just after it ate the candy bar, apparently it liked it so much it came back to look for more...

WGI 0049 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAPB0-NH8jc#)
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Heredoggydoggy on August 22, 2012, 10:27:53 PM: He got so mad there weren't any more candy bars, he pee'd on the stump! :chuckle:

I get green lines on the last couple of pictures my camera takes just before the batteries die. :dunno:
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Elkpiss on August 24, 2012, 07:12:31 AM: Quote from: Miles on August 22, 2012, 05:26:43 PM
Send Dman a PM and get the number to his cat specialist. :chuckle:
:yeah: :chuckle:
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: Elkpiss on August 24, 2012, 07:14:06 AM: I enhanced the picture and its definetly a Bobcat... :chuckle: We need a second opinion from i think we all know who!.... 8)
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: WildlifeAssassin on August 24, 2012, 08:31:55 AM: Quote from: Huntbear on August 22, 2012, 10:00:02 AM
As soon as you click on the play button... right in the middle of the frame, something moved... and was gone... then this screaming mimi comes rocketing through......

I am thinking Bobcat...

I agree, if there was nothing in the middle I would really want to know the make and model of the trailcam because that is trigger speed!
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: BiggLuke on August 24, 2012, 09:59:19 AM: I believe it may be a young fox.
looks like it has pointy ears with white on the inside of them.
Looks like has long tail.
and looks like its redish on the top half and blackish red on bottom.
Very charactaristic of a fox.
however...
the first time i watched this video, what popped in my mind was Martin, or mink or something dark..
but i dont think so now.
The face and ears are quite visible for a couple of frames.
Has to be a canine.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: silverdalesauer on August 24, 2012, 10:30:54 AM: It's a fawn.

If you increase the screen size and then look intently at the first frame - the first place where it enters the screen you can see the long ears and nose like a deer. Also the legs are thin and slender.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: HoofsandWings on August 27, 2012, 10:44:21 AM: I think it is a fox.
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: AKBowman on August 27, 2012, 11:39:34 AM: Quote from: mfswallace on August 22, 2012, 08:23:37 AM
After pausing just as it enters the screen....

Fawn-elongated face, white spots, black tip on white tail.... :twocents:

X2 on that. Fawn being chased probably by one of the yotes.

Wich cam are you using for the video? Nice vids
Title: Re: What is this? (don't blink)
Post by: bobcat on August 27, 2012, 11:35:16 PM: Quote from: AKBowman on August 27, 2012, 11:39:34 AM
Which cam are you using for the video? Nice vids

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