When I moved to New York’s Southern Tier back in 1969, man had yet to land on the moon, turkeys were a rarity, and no one that I knew ever encountered a bear, much less a coyote. But, during the ensuing years all that changed.
Turkeys are hunted across the state and I hear coyotes howling just about every night as I’m leaving the woods during archery season. Bear sightings are fairly common, and we even had a mother with three cubs walk down the middle of our street a short while ago.
There is however one animal I’ve never seen, and that’s a bobcat.
Mike Raykovicz: At long last, a bobcat caught on camera near New York/Pennsylvania border
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