Hunting Washington Forum
Community => Trail Cameras => Topic started by: jrebel on May 17, 2022, 06:52:27 PM
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I'll post a couple I have so far.
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Big guy
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Wa state has very few cougars. The ones we have just cover a lot of ground up to 4 or 5 hundred miles. Inslee will tell you they are few and far between here and don't post any danger.
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Nice lions! So grateful the WDFW has managed these large predators properly and we don’t have issues.
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Couple from last spring....curious if I see the juveniles together this year. Lots of times I see the juvenile cats hang together for a year or two before moving on.
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Here's a nice Western Wa kitty.
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Here's a nice Western Wa kitty.
That is a nice one. Don't see to many pics of cats on from that side of the mountain.
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Looks like Johnny needs to do some kitty removal.
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Looks like Johnny needs to do some kitty removal.
Indeed.....they are hard to hunt though in the thick brush of the NE. We were danger close to one last year during hunting season, We could hear it screaming...but couldn't find it.
It's amazing I have any deer in my hunting areas. :chuckle:
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Here's a nice Western Wa kitty.
That is a nice one. Don't see to many pics of cats on from that side of the mountain.
Probably more cats on the west side than east.
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Here's a nice Western Wa kitty.
That is a nice one. Don't see to many pics of cats on from that side of the mountain.
Probably more cats on the west side than east.
I agree.....lot thicker country and not nearly as much road access.
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Not a trail cam picture but actually one I took with my cell phone in Montana last year while archery elk hunting. Almost too close for comfort and definitely not too happy I was there and let me hear about it for a good 20 minutes!
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Yes, there are definitely a lot of cats over here!
This one is not a 2022 cat ( it was last November) but it's in the same spot as my previous pic.
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Most recent one.
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Fuzzy photo, but here's a west side cat.
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I’ll be adding a series when I’m at a computer in a couple days. Momma with three one year olds. I have the momma and newborns last year…..assuming the same cats.
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Gmu 101 coug
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SW Wa cat from a couple years ago
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Klickitat cat in 2016
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A couple of Entiat cats.
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From the Bethel unit
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Westside
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More Westside
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Gmu 101 coug
Nmesub,
The cougar in your pic looks really scarred up, probably from fighting other cougars. We had one whose face was really ripped up from a fight with another cougar, and most of them we've handled in western WA (except young ones) have face scars from fighting.
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GMU 564
This was early on for running cameras. I used to keep all my pics when I got them cause I thought it was cool and rare.....
Now I just flip through and past them when they show up and delete a lot because its so common. Out of 4 cams I get at least 1 cat a week. All in GMU 564
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West side, tried to fix the colors but the camera was messed up
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Mom and her triplets. Had them last year when they were just spotted football sized cubs. Darn shame a big tom didn't feast on a few of those little buggers.
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....but there is no cat problem in our state. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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Too many for me to post, along with wolves in places I had not seen them before
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Got one that comes thru property regular. Last time on the 3rd. Left camp for an hour in the afternoon to get a cell signal. Guess when it came thru.
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:bfg:
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August 13th 4:30 in the afternoon......400 yds from my house
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Mighty big kittens or are they?
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They look to be the same size as the triplets we have on our property. Kittens.....no, juvenile / 14-16 month old....yes. Very well could be the same cats.
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You need to teach your cats to stay home !!!
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I’m hoping they will get hit by a car on the hwy….that’s why I dropped them off down there. :chuckle:
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Was getting elk on cam regularly. Of course, right before archery, mostly cougars..
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1 pic at a time, I guess.
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One I got with my cell phone. I was bear hunting and turned around and he was like 15 yards behind me kind of crouched down and just staring at me.
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And that right there is why some guys won’t try calling bears until September 1 so they don’t accidentally call a cougar in they can’t kill. Good thing you turned around before he decided you looked like a good snack
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Let's see if this loads
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Couple more. Have a video too but it's too big to post
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Close by
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Looks like it caught a rabbit.
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:hello:
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Sure are a lot of putty cats showing up on cams. I have more to post but it will have to wait till I have a little time.
Keep them coming.
On another note.....I had a wolf on my trail cam a week ago. Haven't had a wolf on camera during the summer ever....only the winter.
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One I got with my cell phone. I was bear hunting and turned around and he was like 15 yards behind me kind of crouched down and just staring at me.
Amazing you got that on your cell phone!
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A lot more cats in Washington then the game department says....
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First one on this cam
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One I got with my cell phone. I was bear hunting and turned around and he was like 15 yards behind me kind of crouched down and just staring at me.
Did you kill it??
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Just checked this camera today. I got three right in a row. I'm definitely not an expert but could it be a female in heat with 2 Toms following her? None of them look adolescent to my untrained eye. Check out the time stamps. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221011/af5c510ca0d2af9a96443e0f6db3c241.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221011/c19a1f111575d2881f5ccfbd387e6332.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221011/ccd0d29dac14215231fbbe9b6d987ee7.jpg)
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Of course they posted out of order. The middle Pic is the first one. The suspected female.
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Neighbor sent me this. Was around the other side of the mountain from us.
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From last year but still think its cool. One minute elk feeding, next a cat is coming through
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These two cameras of mine have SO many cats on them it's nuts. Entiat.
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MONSTER bobby
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I have a cougar problem..... :bash: :bash:
More photos....
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A big problem.... :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: Damn this state and our lack of predator management. People bitchhhh about killing a doe and this is happening everywhere I put a trail camera. :bash: :bash:
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A big problem.... :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: Damn this state and our lack of predator management. People bitchhhh about killing a doe and this is happening everywhere I put a trail camera. :bash: :bash:
Dude you need to start calling those things.🤯
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A big problem.... :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: Damn this state and our lack of predator management. People bitchhhh about killing a doe and this is happening everywhere I put a trail camera. :bash: :bash:
Dude you need to start calling those things.🤯
I've tried. Last year was the closest I have come to finding one. We had one screaming something fierce....so we closed the distance and tried calling. Needless to say, nothing happened.
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Keep at it, thanks for the share!
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Put this cam out close to Hwy 2 for fun to check on my way back from skiing a couple winters ago. Area probably looks a lot different now (Bolt Creek fire). Pulled the card about 4 hours after this guy came through
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Another Entiat cat.
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In all honesty, I hate this thread!! While the pictures are cool to see. It really shows how big of a problem we have!
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Another Entiat cat.
Man, trail cam video is so much cooler than photos. I want to do more of that but it fills up an SD card so much faster than photos.
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Put this cam out close to Hwy 2 for fun to check on my way back from skiing a couple winters ago. Area probably looks a lot different now (Bolt Creek fire). Pulled the card about 4 hours after this guy came through
Why is there a jar screwed to the tree? Is it a information jar?
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In all honesty, I hate this thread!! While the pictures are cool to see. It really shows how big of a problem we have!
Yes, I agree....and I started for that reason. The Bio's and state WDFW officer have all told me lies. I have heard numbers ranging from 1500 to 3000 cats in the entire state. I just don't see how that number can be possible given the shear number of cats I catch on camera alone.
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Not sure if this one will work?
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Put this cam out close to Hwy 2 for fun to check on my way back from skiing a couple winters ago. Area probably looks a lot different now (Bolt Creek fire). Pulled the card about 4 hours after this guy came through
Why is there a jar screwed to the tree? Is it a information jar?
I did this kind of last minute and didn't have any mineral lick. Google "DIY Deer Bait" and one of the suggestions is to screw the cap of a peanut butter jar to the tree, cut the bottom out, screw the jar in to the top. Didn't work very well, think the squirrels and what not got to it before any deer. :chuckle:
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Another one drinking
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You'll get no-where with state of federal biologist, when you tell them about "predator control"! Learned that years ago during the water war in the Methow!!! They turn a deaf ear whenever they are approached with the subject matter, it blows their agenda's out of the water, pun intended!! :bash: :bash:
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Here were 4 in this sequence (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221101/ee00ea24797c856454fda54882665dd3.jpg)
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selkirk 113. had a black bear in same spot the following week. too many predators.
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Another Entiat cat.
That is the coolest cat vid.
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Another cat in the snow. Had it on two cams and followed it's tracks for about a mile down a logging road. Doesn't look like it has missed many meals. :bash: :bash:
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I have always heard cougars are territorial. But some pics with as many as 4, which could be mom and some youngins, but they look pretty big. I am starting to wonder if they aren't starting to me somewhat social and allowing other cats in the area with them since there are so many? One cougar in an area will kill a lot of deer and elk but if there are several that could wipe out a lot of animals.
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About 12 years ago a cam near Wenatchee had 8 in a pic. Probably two related females with older offspring. With much lower deer numbers expect problems. Be careful out there
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Cut a set of tracks yesterday myself.
Female with a small one.
Didn't follow very long,tracks went into private property and I was hunting public land.
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oh great another cougar picture on my camera... i've lost count this year.
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No deer in that area now.
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I know a spot in 124 that has at least 4 different cats. I'll put a cam out and catch a few.
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A couple more Kitty's. Mom is chirping for the other kitten.
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Kinda hard to see with the white out but there are 3 cats on this kill site i found. One in the front ,1 on the kill next to the tree and one in the back with glowing eye's. There was a total of 5 cat's on this kill :yike: :yike:
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A buddy of mine in grays harbor sent me these. This cam is right off his back yard
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A buddy of mine in grays harbor sent me these. This cam is right off his back yard
Coug pack right there.. :yike:
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A buddy of mine in grays harbor sent me these. This cam is right off his back yard
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Holy hell!
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:yike: They killed the deer 100 yrds up on a hill drug it down and across a road and down a steep bank another 75 yrds under a tree. Pretty impressive the power these cats have it was quite the drag it was not a small deer.
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Forgive my ignorance but I thought these big cats were solitary? Is that picture with a pack or maybe a pride common for them? That’s a sobering picture.
SR1
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My guess would be one mature female with older cub from a previous litter and three young cubs, what do you think? Regardless, going to take a bunch of pets/livestock/deer to keep them fed.
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None of them look spotted kitten in that cougar pack.
Looks to be all fair game to hunt them.
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At first I was thinking maybe a group of young toms but the first cat does appear to be bigger.
Here are the videos maybe one of our cat gurus can tell us
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Most of the pictures I have with multiple cats is a mom with cubs. It appears, based on my trail cam pics, that the young cats will stay with the mom for two to three years. The young cats, siblings or not, will then pal around in groups for another couple years. Seeing groups of cats is not uncommon anymore. I use to only get pics of singles and a double here and there.....but now It is not uncommon at all to have pics with 3-5 cats. This alone tells me we have a population problem.
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I’m no lion expert but my guess was the first cat was a female and the pack the next morning was a group of young toms?
Here are the videos maybe one of our cat gurus can tell us
That looks like a mom with 4, 1 year old kittens. The mom is the first on on the left as we look at the screen.....the rest are kittens. If you look at the inside of the legs and see black stripes....that usually indicates a young cat. At least this is what a biologist told me. :tup:
I am not the expert...but I ask bio's a ton of questions as I would like to know as much as possible about this apex predator.
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The commission doesn't believe we have a problem in Wa. So what's the apex predator, cougar, wolf, soon to be introduced Grizzly?
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The commission doesn't believe we have a problem in Wa. So what's the apex predator, cougar, wolf, soon to be introduced Grizzly?
WDFW also says only a 100 wolves in the state and like only 2000 cougar .
Everybody is always quick to blame the Commission ,but they can only go with what WDFW tells them is on the ground.
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Or totally ignore it if it does not fit an agenda. Much like the state DOE, 'we only use research that fits our opinion'.