CANADA LYNX JINX BROKEN! Finally got to watch a Lynx in the daytime!
March 21 in the Superior National Forest of northern Minnesota. (Single frame plucked from video clip).
As I came over a rise, there it was…A Canada Lynx walking right towards me on a remote forest road. It was 9:30 am and sunny. It saw me and bounded off the road and into the 3-foot deep snow. I stayed put thinking that it might come my way via the pine woods. And after a few tense minutes of me second-guessing my intuition, it did!
Their giant oversized paws allow them to float over deep powder snow as they hunt their favorite prey…Snowshoe Hares.
My only other encounter was about 30 years ago while doing owl surveys at night with my friend Dave Benson. That one appeared in our headlights, just sitting in the road. They are very mellow cats, and are rarely in a hurry…Unless in hot pursuit of a hare!
2-minute video (photo is just a single frame from the video).
Watch the video to see it walking over the deep snow (click gear icon on bottom right to change resolution to higher quality).
Single frame plucked from video clip
Single frame plucked from video clip
Single frame plucked from video clip
March 22, 2019
Sparky Stensaas
thesparkygroup@gmail.com
1 responses to “Canada Lynx Jinx Broken!”
drew hempel
June 11th, 2019 at 22:06
I reported my first Lynx sighting to the MN DNR – first I saw the tracks in the Feb. snow – and realized they were a big cat (and also my obnoxious chipmunks had vanished). The tracks had lept into a favorite tree of the chipmunks. Then in March I discovered the Lynx scat (I sent the photo into the DNR) – after I heard the Lynx call that sealed the deal for me. But for me to SEE the Lynx – that would be unbelievable! Congrats.