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.
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