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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: mulehunter on February 13, 2015, 11:04:44 PM

Title: Three Lynx
Post by: mulehunter on February 13, 2015, 11:04:44 PM: My good buddy email me today told me to post for him that his son was grooming for the sno mobile club today up somewhere Okanogan County and come across these Three Lynx. Its very Rare picture for sure. He suspect a Female with two grown kittens.

Awesome, Thanks my friend for taking pics.

:tup:
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on February 13, 2015, 11:08:58 PM: Very cool mulehunter, thanks for sharing some pictures of beautiful critters.
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Post by: MtnMuley on February 14, 2015, 05:20:13 AM: Very cool, mule. Hope that tom got to many of the females up there, because they are certainly female dominant in that area. :tup:
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Post by: villageidiot on February 14, 2015, 06:14:07 AM: Lynx follow the snowshoe hare. The idiot groups that protest logging in thick lodge pole pine thickets are shooting themselves in the foot. Snowshoe hair eat woody brush and grass which do not grow in old lodge pole or Doug fir stands. Logging opens these canopies up and second succession plants come in that the snowshoe eat and the lynx follow. Canada logs everything and has many lynx which are hunted. We are idiots!
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Post by: Axle on February 14, 2015, 06:31:34 AM: Nice pictures indeed! :tup:
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Post by: fastdam on February 14, 2015, 06:37:18 AM: Fascinating animals.
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Post by: teanawayslayer on February 14, 2015, 07:04:44 AM: Great pic! Thanks for sharing your buddies photo's :tup:
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Post by: cedarriver on February 14, 2015, 08:17:16 AM: Very cool! Thanks.
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Post by: Spawnstar on February 14, 2015, 08:46:42 AM: Great pictures! Thanks for sharing
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Post by: Boss .300 winmag on February 14, 2015, 08:49:53 AM: The cat rut should be starting soon, wonder if those smaller ones are females being courted by a tom. :dunno:
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Post by: Watimberghost on February 14, 2015, 08:54:58 AM: That is awesome! Some great pics!
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Post by: stew pidasso on February 14, 2015, 10:52:14 AM: Thanks for sharing. Cool experience for him
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Post by: Falcon on February 14, 2015, 11:46:17 AM: Good to see these cats around.

Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on February 14, 2015, 12:19:16 PM: Cool pic's :tup:
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Post by: mulehunter on February 15, 2015, 09:06:26 AM: Buddy email me this morning, another pics from his son's friend lady who rode with him, She has better camera and buddy notice this is better quality and also the female on the right looks to have a collar. GPS Collar?

Cool pics. Thanks to my friend for share pics... :tup:
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Post by: MtnMuley on February 15, 2015, 09:30:10 AM: Been a lynx study up there for years.
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Post by: jackmaster on February 15, 2015, 09:47:25 AM: Quote from: Boss .300 winmag on February 14, 2015, 08:49:53 AM
The cat rut should be starting soon, wonder if those smaller ones are females being courted by a tom. :dunno:
doesn't it start in December and run through mid febuary? Sweet pics, it definitely is a rare thing to get a pic of a lynx let alone 3 in one pic, that is so awesome, it would be awesome if they recovered in this state...
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Post by: villageidiot on February 15, 2015, 09:09:21 PM: The lynx have never declined in the Methow. There have always been a good population in the higher country. The goat creek area these were seen in was an old clear cut where the snow shoe hare has flourished. Unfortunately the clear cut is filling in and the food source of the snowshoe is dwindling. The green groups appeal any logging in the lynx areas which is really detrimental to their cause. The old growth and choked forests are poor habitat for snow shoes. Some severe thinning of these sub alpine forests are essential for the snow shoe and the lynx. Either harvest it or wait for a wildfire. Wildfires are unpredictable but commercial thinning has a predictable and guaranteed result.
Canada logs heavily in lynx habitat and has no shortage of lynx. They even hunt lynx in Canada.
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Post by: fastdam on February 20, 2015, 04:15:34 PM: I had one walk right up to me up morse creek in little naches 10 years ago while bowhunting early season. In just a few hops it appeared in the trail and saw me at about 12 feet. Then it spun around in one fluid motion and jumped a few times then disappeard off to the right down the hill.
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Post by: quadrafire on February 20, 2015, 04:31:11 PM: That is cool Mulehunter. Good reason right there to keep a camera handy. They're not afraid of snow machines??
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Post by: Machias on February 20, 2015, 06:53:29 PM: Nice!!!
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Post by: Pinetar on February 20, 2015, 07:06:45 PM: Sweet pic! Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: bearpaw on February 20, 2015, 07:13:52 PM: awesome pics
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Post by: Birdguy on February 22, 2015, 08:33:01 PM: Cool pictures! How nice a better camera was there as well. Multiple pics of multiple Lynx from multiple cameras.... amazing! Thanks for sharing and thank your buddy as well :tup:.
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Post by: gunnarnewt on February 24, 2015, 07:28:13 AM: Would love the opportunity to see those in the wild! Cool pics. :tup:
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Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on February 24, 2015, 07:34:36 AM: Quote
The green groups appeal any logging in the lynx areas which is really detrimental to their cause. The old growth and choked forests are poor habitat for snow shoes. Some severe thinning of these sub alpine forests are essential for the snow shoe and the lynx. Either harvest it or wait for a wildfire. Wildfires are unpredictable but commercial thinning has a predictable and guaranteed result.

Pretty common for "green groups" to not have a clue about biodiversity, or anything they did not learn from Disney...
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Post by: wildweeds on March 18, 2015, 09:43:05 AM: I've seen one in the wild at an undisclosed private 20k acre ranch near tonasket 30 years ago,and yup as previously mentioned there were snowshoes all over that place.I was sneaking along in the timber deer hunting and spotted Larry the lynx eyeing me up from 50 yards or so away.Really cool to see.Great pictures for sure.
Quote from: gunnarnewt on February 24, 2015, 07:28:13 AM
Would love the opportunity to see those in the wild! Cool pics. :tup:
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Post by: Okanagan on March 18, 2015, 02:03:36 PM: Great pics and info!

About 15 years ago I came on fresh lynx tracks in an inch of fresh snow in the far western Paysayten, at timberline in the early buck season. I thought it was interesting enough to wander down to the Game office in Mill Creek, near my home at the time, and tell a biologist.

The woman briefly tolerated my tale and told me abruptly that there are no lynx that far west. I turned to leave and as I reached her door she asked if I was familiar with lynx tracks. "I've trapped and called them in Canada," I said, and kept walking.
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Post by: fastdam on March 20, 2015, 09:35:03 PM: They didnt believe me either. Oh well.
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Post by: Firedogg on March 21, 2015, 12:28:18 AM: Now that's pretty cool to not only see one, but three together and get pictures. I keep looking for them up at the bro-in-law's cabin since there are plenty of hares around. Some day I will get some pics in the wild.