Bobcat in Eastham?

[DMenace]

I saw one run across the road in front of me this past fall on Rt. 9 in Amherst on the way home from driving my daughter to UMass. It was around dusk, no traffic, I saw a rustle in the bushes, and I thought it was going to be a fox. I've never seen one before, it was the coolest thing, perfectly siloetted. I know it was western mass, not the Cape, but I'd love to see these guys around more often.

[Raven]

Friend of mine had one in Brookfield that would just Waltz in and select
one of his chickens... ( He had a flock of them and sold eggs...)
then it would casually walk back into the woods like he owned the place.

Several times he thought about shooting it but then he said he loved
the relationship he had with it...the cat and mouse game they played......
over who was smarter....him or the Bobcat...

they are the type of Animal who will sit for hours on end hatching out a plan
and mentally timing your every move so they know exactly when
to show up and expertly claim their prize.

this happened to me too...i watched one watch me as i tossed trash fish (shiners)
in a pile for it next to a big rock for them or the coyotes and it would just lay in the sun
and wait patiently for me to leave.

[2na]

Back in the late 70's I worked at the all night gas station across the rotary from the state police barracks (the collapsing wreck of the building is still there). On more than one occasion I saw coyotes run across the bridge at 3-4 AM (you wouldn't even see a car for a 1/2 hour at times). I would imagine that that would be the only way they would get on cape unless someone reintroduced them. Seeing that they are in Carver I would think that there is that possibility, but I don't think that a cat would run the what, 2/3 of a mile to cross?? The coyotes would jus boot across in groups of 2-3, I saw that maybe 3-4 times.