Monday, March 02, 2009

Wildlife in Shelton

Another wild animal was sighted in Shelton, and it seems that the Bobcat has been identified. The Conservation Commission discussed this last week when we were alerted to it by Conservation Agent Teresa Gallagher, and the CtPost picked up on the story which has more information.

With reports of "mountain lions" (mis-reports) and other wild animals gaining close proximity to residential areas, I starte tracking this with a custom google map which I embed below. Red markers are confirmed sightings, blue markers are simply reports, and Purple Pins are whimsical.


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1 comment:

Teresa said...

The "mountain lion" sightings in Shelton were PROBABLY not actually mountain lions, but you can't say that for sure, except for the one case where the woman took a picture of the "mountain lion" and it was clearly a pit bull. You never know, it is possible (though not probable) that a mountain lion is lurking about.