Given my earlier post on the lynx, it’s appropriate that reader Brad Day sent in one of his own photos showing that cat. Your job is to spot it. Brad’s story first:
Here’s a pic from an encounter I had with a lynx while kayaking on a remote river in the Yukon. It shows the place along the right bank of the river where I had just paddled by moments earlier, right below the lynx. I remember being busy concentrating on making a sharp left bend in the river when suddenly something caught my eye next to me and I looked up to see a big cat up on the bank at an uncomfortably close distance. It wasn’t until after I made the corner that I had time to get the camera out and by then I was a distance away with the river now flowing directly away from the subject in the photo.
Thankfully, it just calmly sat there watching me float by, perhaps posing for a picture, although it almost seemed like it might have been expecting me to toss it some noms. It’s amusing to think what would have happened if I had given it a stuffed catnip toy instead.
Can you see it in the photo? I had a bit of trouble spotting it. Enlarge it by clicking (twice in succession, with an interval between clicks) if you have trouble seeing the cat.
It’s quite creepy, because he’s staring right at you.
So is the nightjar perched on its head.
Right in the middle!
Hili!
Gorgeous!!
Meow! So majestic 🙂
That’s quite a cat. Now, spot the leopard would be a good heading.
The catnip should, in theory, work on lynx. IIRC it works on species outside the Felidae family, not just all those in it. Including humans, though evidently we have to ingest it in high doses to get the hallucinatory effect, not just sniff it.
Why are so many animals named “Spot” displayed
on this site?
It seems appropriate that a site devoted to evolution would offer a search for the missing lynx.
Heeheehee🐯
Did he just say that?
Very good! 😀
Excellent!
If you’re an IDer you will notice the gaps on either side.
Rather more a ghostly gray color than I was expecting…
Fantastic! What a thrill it must have been.
You can actually make out the huge paws. Cool.
A little closer to the river, and the title had been “Paws for reflection”.
Big, isn’t he?
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Not many chances to see that in the wild. Big thrill.
Yes indeed! I am so envious!
This is the best “Spot the…” so far this year!
Took me all of three seconds to find the lynx, but then I guess it is because my eyes are well trained as I have on several occasions seen lynxes in the woods north-east of Geneva after they were reintroduced here in the seventies. I also saw lynx footprints in the snow, in the woods.
Ooops, sub!
Wow, Brad, great “spot-the” photo! Took me a while to find it, but then when you do, it’s like, “how did I ever miss that?!” 😀 What a thrilling encounter!
Several years ago my son & I drove past a lynx sitting on a snow bank on a road just to the east of Mt. St. Helens. By the time it registered we’d driven past it a ways, but decided to double back and try to find it again (we’d had the road to ourselves for miles). Amazingly enough we found it still sitting on the snow bank and were able to watch it for maybe half a minute or so before it took off, loping along the top of the bank for a while, then disappearing into the conifers beyond.
Central under the Tree.
Great picture. Would make a great jigsaw puzzle.