The Lynx Returns

Looks like Jim was right….I don’t see any ear “tufts”!

I see them very clearly in pictures 1 and 2

Your picture must be better than mine…..

The third picture shows there are two tufts, compare the background with the first photo.

Kitty!

Tom,
Yesterday I said I didn’t think this was a Lynx but after seeing these photos I would say it is a Lynx. I can see the ear tuffs in these shots.

ok…. not kitty.

Ear tuffs = Lynx, no ear tuffs = Bobcat? Is that how you can tell the two apart? From a quicky glance without reading anything at pictures on the net, I was like… wait, they look alike but I wasn’t looking at the ears.

The ear tufts are one way also a lynx has much bigger feet than a bobcat and a lynx is built higher in the rear.

I’m going to post another picture in awhile of a lynx taken in the same area. It may or may not be the same one. This photo shows the large feet of the lynx – his “snowshoes” to get around and catch those hares. Although not clearly, it shows the all black tip of his tail.

Bobcats and lynx both have ear tufts. Its clear to me that that is a lynx.

True but a bobcats tufts are shorter in length.