[TN-Bird] Bobcat

Last night while trying to pick up owl calls over my outside microphone, a few 
mournful wails of coyotes communicating was all I could hear at first.  But 
about 45 minutes later at 8:30 PM a blood curdling scream (if that's what you 
could call it) really caught my attention!  I went just outside the door and 
stood against the wall and waited.  It started again and continued for 20 
minutes.  After a while I recognized it as a Bobcat.  It was within 200 feet 
from where I was standing, just over the hill at a spring. It very gradually 
moved around the hill into a clear cut and I didn't hear it again.  The call 
sounds like a mountain lion on a bit higher scale but includes a scratchy 
guttural sound that is impressive.  
Although I consider myself a naturalist, I felt the hair rise on the back of my 
neck.
But---no owls.

Robbie Hassler
Byrdstown, TN
Pickett County

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