BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 21, 2022
The trail camera photo provided by Neil Brackley — via his parents, Al and Joyce Brackley — shows a large-ish feline crossing a bridge late at night on Aug. 15 in Franklin County. There were a variety of interpretations about what we saw. Most of you thought the animal was a Canada lynx, while several others guessed bobcat. A couple of readers did say it’s a mountain lion. Shevenell Webb, the furbearer biologist from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, set the record straight. “The photo looks like a bobcat, even from a distance, because its feet are not large and legs are not as long as a lynx would be,” Webb said when asked to identify the cat in the photo. “Its hind end is level with [its] back, whereas the hips for lynx are a little taller than the rest of the body.”