Have you seen a Bobcat in the last 3 years in Minnesota?

[uptracker]

I saw one last Monday in the NE part of the state. Looked to be a good size tom.

[fr0sty]

Here is the one from my cam last year.

[CNCMike]

Often, Crow wing, Aitkin and cass counties

I usually see 3-4 each year

[harvey lee]

Not in Mn but in North Dakota just acroos the border on the trail cams.

[Archerysniper]

Called one in last winter while coyote hunting season was closed so I just watched it till it left. Also had a canadian lynx come thru while gun hunting 5 years back by holeyoak.

[brassman]

I have seen three this summer and fall. Two of them I have reason to believe they were the same creature, only 500 yards between each sighting but a few months difference. Then another that was absolutely huge! all within 20 minutes of Duluth.

[JayinMN]

Yes, but I am not sharing locations other then Lake and St. Louis counties. I have seen more in the last year then I have seen my entire life. In the last year I have seen 6.

Here is one from Dec 2010

[reinhard1]

wonderfull creatures in the awesome Arrowhead country. nice picture. good luck.

[juniordo1]

October 2009, Itasca county near Pengilly. The bobcat was chasing a grouse. The neighbor was all excited about it and tried to tell me it was a cougar. I told him to look at a picture of each and get back to me. I haven't heard from him since.

[mnviking28]

Northwest of Thief River, 2 years ago

[jeep guy]

I had one come out into one of my runways saturday morning, sat down for awhile and then just wandered away. This was the first one that I have ever seen in the wild. It was up around Mt. Iron.

[Shack]

I saw my first one in years back in our woods, but sadly he must have lost the fight last night or the night before last:

It's too far from any major road and it looks as though it was in a good fight. Not sure what got him but maybe another bobcat or a yote?

[Ebiz]

Deer opener in 2009 up by Longville, came within about 20 yards of my stand. Cool animals, I can say for certain he knew I was there long before I saw him...

[jerkbait]

Shack, you going to have that one mounted or make a rug? Would be cool.

[pumper317]

I have had 2 sightings in the since November, and family in the same location saw 2 in January, and 1 on opening day of deer in 2011. So that makes 5. 4 clear sightings and one 85% probable.

[JIvers]

I grew up in SE Minnesota, where bobcat sightings are slightly more common, and a little more reliable, than Bigfoot sightings.

I've never seen a bobcat in the wild anywhere, but oddly enough, bobcat are now fairly common in southeast Iowa: Washington County, Iowa, just south of me, now has an open season for bobcat. The southern third of Iowa, more or less, now has enough bobcat to allow an annual total kill of 300 or so. (The quota changes every year.)

The bobcat population in Iowa is gradually expanding north; it may be that if we ever have more than an occasional sighting in southern Minnesota, they will come from Iowa, not northeast Minnesota.

http://qctimes.com/news/local/article_cfba79e8-d7e7-11de-a816-001cc4c002e0.html

www.eeob.iastate.edu/faculty/ClarkW/.../bobcat%20short%20report.p...

[SmellEsox]

I'm 49 years old and have spent a lot of time in bobcat country in UP of Michigan and central and northern MN and I saw my first one in fall of 2010 in Crow Wing Co. coming out of a spruce planting. Cool animal.

[gundy89]

minnesota river valley shakopee, mn. 2 years ago. we locked eyes on a trail for 5 seconds and he/she was gone. first and only time in the wild.

[tunrevir]

Saw 2 on trail cams behind my house last spring.

Tunrevir~