The Falmouth Department of Marine and Environment Services is reporting officers from the department have been working with biologist from the Massachusetts Division of Fish and Wildlife to review a video of what appears to be a bobcat submitted to the town. The recording was taken by Chris Leboeuf in North Falmouth on August 9.
In the video a large cat is seen standing on a rock wall. According to the Falmouth Department of Marine and Environmental Services, “The distinct characteristics of the animal, have led both local and state officials to the same conclusion: this video represents the first conclusive documented bobcat (Lynx rufus) specimen on Cape Cod.” The department believes the cat in the video is a juvenile cat.
Falmouth Marine and Environmental Services have placed several cameras in the area in hopes to obtain additional documentation. Unfortunately bobcats are pretty sly and tough to capture on video or camera.
The Falmouth Department of Marine and Environmental Services reports, “In February 2011, there was a report from Eastham that an expert in identifying animal scat discovered bobcat droppings in that town. According to another report, in 2008, a vehicle struck a bobcat in Carver. This was ‘the first appearance of a bobcat in the south eastern part of the state in recent memory.’”
Bobcats weigh between 15 to 40 pounds. Some people confuse them with a domestic cat or a mountain lion. Bobcats are two times larger than a domestic cat but smaller than a mountain lion. They eat a variety of small animals such as mice, chickens, or small cats. If you are in an area where bobcats live, take care of your small pets and don’t leave food out other than bird seed.
The photo above is the actual bobcat from the August 9, 2013 sighting.
Below is a stock file photo from wikipedia of a bobcat about to attack chickens in Washington.
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They are part of our nature. http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dfg/dfw/fish-wildlife-plants/mammals/bobcat-in-mass-generic.html
As long as they don’t attack like the rabid one in Brookfield. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/09/16429441-bobcat-that-attacked-massachusetts-family-was-rabid-officials-say?lite
I swear I saw one last year in the night, across the street from the bottom of my driveway near Taft Pond on Shore Drive. There’s no way this was a standard-size cat. Large ears, bobbed tail, much larger than any house cat. I caught it in my headlights as it was standing on top of an old fallen tree. It had it’s body turned so I could see it’s whole right side, with it’s head turned to look at the headlights. I stopped the car to watch it. My daughter saw it, too, (although she can’t tell the difference of a house cat or wild cat). It just stared at the lights for several seconds until it jumped down to back side of the fallen tree to the toward the pond into the darkness. I am already extra careful with the kids and the dog outside, living with the woods in the back yard and across the street from the pond. We’ve seen several fisher cross through the yard along with coyote, fox, deer, turkeys, turtles, geese, ground hogs, skunk, rabbits and many, many snake. In fact, there’s lots of baby snakes out back this summer. Yay (not). At least they are not in our basement (again). During those years when we have several bunnies hopping around the yard at a time, I don’t worry as much. When I don’t see them any more, it means something big is in the area. We do hear the coyote calling to each other in the night. You can hear the sounds from the left, then the right then the far back in the woods. Pretty neat.