I have been asked by a local landowner to help him thin the population of bobbers on his river bottom. The last two days we have cut probably 15 tracks. Here is the problem, we cant get the tracks lined out, between old cat tracks, deer tracks, coyote tracks, porupine tracks etc... even if we do it seems that the dogs always lose the track usually in close proximity to an old, dead, probably hollow cotton wood tree. My question... has any one ever found bobcats bedding up for the day in hollowed out, standing trees???
JT
Bobcats denning in trees?????
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LarryBeggs
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Re: Bobcats denning in trees?????
Yes we used to tree a lot of them in cedar snags when I was younger. Most of those snags are gone now cut for shakes.Also have treed them in hollow alder trees.
Re: Bobcats denning in trees?????
How many dogs are you running? Try just the best cat dog and walk him abit.
Re: Bobcats denning in trees?????
OK here is what I have tried so far...
In the evening we will go run the roads to see what tracks are there. Then first thing in the morning we will go see what new tracks we can find. We then pick out the freshest looking track then circle it in as tight as possible, yesterday morning for example we had a large tom track that crossed the road, the road makes a loop, the track never came out of the loop, no possible way we could have missed it, drove the circle twice. This loop encompasses less than an acre.
Put my male kemmer on a lead and walked him down the track for about a 100 yards, which is longer than I normally would, usually I let him out of the box he will run over stick his nose in a track and the race is on.
He seemed to be lined out and pulling me down the track so I turned him loose, he ran off down the track as normal then just lost the track.. I went over to try and help him out but the track was gone...
This scenario played out three time with three different tracks just yesterday. The one thing we noticed was the tracks alway seemed to disappear near a large, dead, cottonwood tree, the type a family of coons would live in.
Any suggestions? I'm stumped...literally. On the bright side the landowner said if I thought the cat has holed up in a dead tree he would be glad to come down and push the tree over with the tractor!
In the evening we will go run the roads to see what tracks are there. Then first thing in the morning we will go see what new tracks we can find. We then pick out the freshest looking track then circle it in as tight as possible, yesterday morning for example we had a large tom track that crossed the road, the road makes a loop, the track never came out of the loop, no possible way we could have missed it, drove the circle twice. This loop encompasses less than an acre.
Put my male kemmer on a lead and walked him down the track for about a 100 yards, which is longer than I normally would, usually I let him out of the box he will run over stick his nose in a track and the race is on.
He seemed to be lined out and pulling me down the track so I turned him loose, he ran off down the track as normal then just lost the track.. I went over to try and help him out but the track was gone...
This scenario played out three time with three different tracks just yesterday. The one thing we noticed was the tracks alway seemed to disappear near a large, dead, cottonwood tree, the type a family of coons would live in.
Any suggestions? I'm stumped...literally. On the bright side the landowner said if I thought the cat has holed up in a dead tree he would be glad to come down and push the tree over with the tractor!