UNUSUAL ANIMAL SIGHTINGS IN TEXAS

[leVieux]

Another species you never saw very far North of the Rio Grande: whitewing doves.

Last ten or so years in Houston, and hunting the ranch in Grimes Cty, they outnumbered the mourning doves.

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During my “growing-up” era, I knew of only one whitewing killed there, some 200 miles East of Houston.

Yet on moving to New Orleans, some 360 miles East of Houston, in 2008, I was astounded to find numerous whitewings, all the way to Pensacola.

Until about 3 months ago, we had two large resident colonies of them in our neighborhood, about 1000 miles East of the Sabine River.

Suddenly, they are rare again there.

Quien sabe ?

leVieux
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[Lonesome Dove]

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A beaver got ran over a couple of blocks from our house. I never imagined beavers being in Abilene.

I hate when someting as good as a little Beaver gets taken out of society no matter where she/they may reside.

 

[General Zod]

I hate when someting as good as a little Beaver gets taken out of society no matter where she/they may reside.

It's ok, I understand that particular beaver was stealing wood from other beavers' dams to support a drug habit.

 

[ComeAndTakeIt]

I live in town as well. Many times now I have seen coyotes in my front yard late at night.
There is a feral cat that hangs around I sure wish they would eat.
I keep the back yard privacy fence in good repair so they do not get to my little dogs.
Coyotes are very adaptable. Suburbia is a godsend for them.

Yeah. We have a LOT of rabbits in our neighborhood and the word is out amongst the coyotes apparently.
I've just never seen one come on my porch and almost ring the doorbell! lol

 

[oldag]

 

[Texasgordo]

No jokes about troll sightings.

I'm still here lurking in the background

 

[candcallen]

I'm still here lurking in the background

 

[General Zod]

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You can often find signs that coyotes have been around...

 

[Sam7sf]

Navarro county has all kinds of animals. Some on probation others still at large.

 

[BRD@66]

Nearly forgot... Sometime between 1972 & 1979, when I lived in Waco, early one morning I saw what I'm pretty sure was a Red Wolf crossing the road on US 84 between Mexia & Teague.

 

[Vaquero]

A solid black cat. Mountain lion sized, crossed the road in front of me.
Cleared the fence on the right side, one bound in the middle of the road and cleared the fence on the left side.
Biologists say they don't exist in Texas.

Another sighting was a cat like animal. Bigger than any bobcat. A spotted coat with a long ringed tail.

These were both in the 70s. I found the ring tail cat in the encyclopedia.
It belongs in central and south America. I forgot the name of the genus.

The only black cat as big as what I saw is supposedly in the Florida everglades.
Both of these sightings were in Taylor County, Texas.

Ocelot.
That's what I saw. Late 1970s.

 

[leVieux]

Ocelot.
That's what I saw. Late 19

My Ocelot sighting was at North Brownsville. c 1999. I got a hospital call; about 3:30 AM.

Turning from my driveway, there he was…..

Later, TP&W said he was killed by traffic near San Benito.

I’ve also seen a Cougar, but never a Bobcat.

leVieux

 

[candcallen]

No bigfoot? Midget clowns?

 

[General Zod]

No bigfoot? Midget clowns?

My midget clowns grew up to be pretty impressive teenagers.

 

[paknheat]

No bigfoot? Midget clowns?

There was a Bigfoot sighting outside of Athens in the Baxter community sometime in the mid 2000’s.

It caused quite the commotion for a few hours for sure.


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[Vaquero]

My Ocelot sighting was at North Brownsville. c 1999. I got a hospital call; about 3:30 AM.

Turning from my driveway, there he was…..

Later, TP&W said he was killed by traffic near San Benito.

I’ve also seen a Cougar, but never a Bobcat.

leVieux

I've seen more bobcats than I can recall.
They're almost as common as coyotes here.

 

[leVieux]

I sat in this same blind for 9 consecutive hunts and saw ONLY one doe/fawn pair.

I left and my buddy climbed in.

15” later:

 

[mongoose]

Saw a large black cat drinking at the river. Wild life biologist told me it was a Jaguar that had come up through Mexico. Neighbor has a brood mare that came up with large claw marks on her butt as if a large cat had tried to drag her down. Cat must have been scared off somehow as she survived.She also had a foal on her that was unharmed. SSS was on the agenda if anyone saw the Cat again.

 

[TNHoosier]

Many have reported large black cougar-type cats, way back since the late 1700’s. I heard they are a dark phase of the American Cougar (Mountain Lion / “Panther”).

I saw something that sounds similar while walking on the trails at the SLB campus in Sugar Land about 5 years ago. It was a large cat, dark brown with a relatively small head and long, thick tail that was almost the length of the body. The closest thing I can find on Google is a Jaguarundi. They are supposed to be extinct in Texas.

 

[2ManyGuns]

There has been red fox living near HWY90A and FM155 area for all my life, I would see them as kid and saw one about 6 months ago, rare but here. In the early 2000's I saw a very large black cat in the Moulton area, at the same time the Schulenburg PD was going out at night, with night vision equipment looking for and killed a couple that had been jumping high fences and killing livestock. Also along FM155 there are large numbers of Turkey, I saw a dozen, full grown on the roadside, bobcat, I have seen 2 in my entire life. Where I deer hunt in Sublime, I saw a grey fox this last season, coyote are "common". I have seen a ring-tailed cat, no bear, nor Big Foot.