UNUSUAL ANIMAL SIGHTINGS IN TEXAS

[leVieux]

Leslie was not a rare sighting but definitely weird.

I have had a couple of melanistic (black) mountain lions on my Llano Co. ranch since 1996.

Saw a Red Wolf in Llano Co. around 2005.

Around 1990, there were several very large blue jay like birds eating cedar berries in Llano Co. in late December. Never was able to positively identify them. They were about the size of a large raven, crested and otherwise colored like a common blue jay. Never have seen them again.

A female Central American skunk not known north of Guatemala denned and raised a litter in our Hays Co. entrance planter. The kittens were likely hybrids with our hog nose skunks. The kittens drove our tuxedo cat wild. She just knew she could raise those kittens herself.

I saw a small Black Bear in Llano Country this very night. Spoke w/ a retired TP&W Game Bologist Friend who said that they are “‘POPPING-up ALL OVER’,

There is. a long-known colony of Red Wolves on the PINS.

leVieux
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[vmax]

There have been numerous black bear sightings around San Angelo for years

Black bear spotted near Sterling City

Game cam footage of a bear may resemble the beginning of a new trend in West Texas.

www.myfoxzone.com

 

[dsgrey]

I've lived my entire 60 years in Grayson, Fannin, Collin and Denton counties but I spotted two red foxes in my rural Fannin county backyard about 15 years ago. I've never seen a red fox before or after in this area.

 

[toddnjoyce]

There's apparently bald eagles around Cedar Creek Lake, but I haven't seen any of 'em.

I’ve seen a pair at Lake Georgetown as recently as 2012 or so.

 

[Fishkiller]

These are the cougars we find in the Big Town

 

[baboon]

Took my oldest for a moto ride to breakfast and saw this guy. Swung back by afterwards to show my kid.

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My old friend the Village Idiot had invited me to his goose lease out in Eagal Lake. I came with an old single wide trailer set up as a bunk house. He opened a kitchen cabinet & a ring tailed cat pounced soon him. The both exited the trail after I opened the door of the trailer.

Needless to say I got no sleep listening to him waking up screaming then checking the cabinet all night.

 

[studenygreg]

Took my oldest for a moto ride to breakfast and saw this guy. Swung back by afterwards to show my kid.

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I freaked out at first. Where is that kids body!

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[baboon]

Ran across footprint of a big cat outside of Scurry. BIG cat. Holy crap. This thing put a dent in a muddy creek bank that could not have been more perfect. Bald eagles hang out in near our neighborhood retention pond.

Bowing hunting a friends place in Palestine I came across a big deep cat print in a sand bar in his creek. Judging by the depth of the print compared to mine that cat had to be close to 200 pound. You would hear it at night screaming of in the distance.

 

[candcallen]

No jokes about troll sightings.

 

[karlac]

Found this in one of the barns on our horse ranch in Grimes county, near Whitehall, just before we sold it a few years back.
Pretty good size cat for that area.

 

[candcallen]

Found this in one of the barns on our horse ranch in Grimes county, near Whitehall, just before we sold it a few years back.
Pretty good size cat for that area.

I think that's a cannid track. You can see the claws/nails and the main pad isn't broad enough.

I could be wrong....

ETA I would like to know if I'm wrong.

 

[Txdweeb]

Worked a contract job at North Ft Hood a couple of years on the heliport. One evening my coworker and I saw a Mt lion walking the fence line from nose to tail covered 1.5 poles which were 6ft apart. I was in awe of his size just watched him stroll off into the cedar trees.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Have had several red fox sightings on my exterior cameras.
Not sure how unusual it is.
Last one was a month ago.

 

[leVieux]

Supposedly there is a tagged black bear in Fannin county that the TPWD tracks. Someone in Gober, which is right down the road from me, had the bear on his trail camera

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The Black Bear last nght in Llano County wasn’t large; I’d guess ~ 55#. I thought it was a hog until it turned so I could see its head & front legs in profile.

A few years back, 2 Mako sharks were caught, measured, photographed, & released in Padre Isle surf. They aren’t supposed to ever be in shallow waters.

In 2017 an excited guy @ Beaumont showed me a video of a full size Cougar
he had just taken @ a vacant lot in Orange, Texas.

There have been sufficient reliable or documented unusual sightings over the centuries to prove that animals often extend their ranges some amazing distances.

Please continue.

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[toddnjoyce]

I caught a hammerhead while on a party boat out of Galveston in the early 80s.
I've got a picture somewhere.
It was about 18" long. Crew flipped out.

 

[leVieux]

Leslie was not a rare sighting but definitely weird.

I have had a couple of melanistic (black) mountain lions on my Llano Co. ranch since 1996.

Saw a Red Wolf in Llano Co. around 2005.

Around 1990, there were several very large blue jay like birds eating cedar berries in Llano Co. in late December. Never was able to positively identify them. They were about the size of a large raven, crested and otherwise colored like a common blue jay. Never have seen them again.

A female Central American skunk not known north of Guatemala denned and raised a litter in our Hays Co. entrance planter. The kittens were likely hybrids with our hog nose skunks. The kittens drove our tuxedo cat wild. She just knew she could raise those kittens herself.

If she “raised a litter”, there must have been a male around somewhere.

 

[karlac]

Have had several red fox sightings on my exterior cameras.
Not sure how unusual it is.
Last one was a month ago.

Early 60's, sitting in tall grass while dove hunting along the Little Brazos West of College Station, a red fox, came jumping through that tall grass and damn near jumped on me sitting there ... scared the crap outta both of us.

 

[karlac]

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The Black Bear last nght in Llano County wasn’t large; I’d guess ~ 55#. I thought it was a hog until it turned so I could see its head & front legs in profile.

A few years back, 2 Mako sharks were caught, measured, photographed, & released in Padre Isle surf. They aren’t supposed to ever be in shallow waters.

In 2017 an excited guy @ Beaumont showed me a video of a full size Cougar
he had just taken @ a vacant lot in Orange, Texas.

There have been sufficient reliable or documented unusual sightings over the centuries to prove that animals often extend their ranges some amazing distances.

Please continue.

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Saw deer in Houston on Westheimer and Gessner one evening in the 80's; and just recently coyotes in West University Place, just a few miles from downtown. The railroad right-of-way through that part of town is a documented critter freeway.

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

In the early 90's a cougar ran across the road in front of me on Atascocita Rd. near the state jail, heavily wooded at the time. Saw a chupacabra on 63 between Jasper and Burkeville, same road different time a coyote eating on a deer carcass on the side of the road. On 1280 between Lovelady and Austonio saw an eagle feeding on something on the side of the road.

 

[Txdweeb]

I’ve also seen a couple of gators at stillhouse hollow lake several times over the years they’re usually on the west side.