We've had numerous cougar sightings in my county, and even up the road a bit from me. Local animal control insisted it was transplants seeing bobcats and confusing them with cougars.
Then one resident had one in his backyard and got a good pic that was on the front page of the local weekly. Others have caught pics of them in their game cameras.
"Mountain lions (also known as cougars, pumas, panthers) were spotted in three towns in Lincoln County in the past week. Excavation contractor Dale Hahn, of Waldoboro and Boothbay, spotted a mountain lion crossing a lawn in Waldoboro near Rte. 220 on July 15. Hahn quickly ran and got his disposable camera and shot two pictures of it before it slinked off into the woods.
“He came bouncing across the shore. There were a lot of geese down there, he may have been after them. I’ve seen bobcat. This was no bobcat, he had a long tail,” Hahn said of the large brownish orange colored cat. “The tracks on it were as big as my hand,” Hahn added.
Hahn’s pictures were taken to the Maine Inland Fisheries & Wildlife office in Sidney on Mon., July 25, where biologist Keel Kemper examined them. “It looks like a mountain lion to me,” Kemper said after studying the photos under a magnifying glass. Kemper met with wildlife experts from across the state on Tuesday to study the photos, and plans on taking them to the State Police Crime Lab to enhance them. Until the photos have been fully studied, Kemper said IF&W would not make an official confirmation of the sighting. Kemper said Hahn’s pictures were the first he had seen of a mountain lion in Maine.
IF&W has confirmed the presence of four mountain lions in Maine, but none in Lincoln County. Kemper made plaster casts of tracks in Monmouth where in 2000 hunters spotted a female cat and cubs. In 2001, IF&W confirmed tracks and scrapes in Hampden belonged to a cougar. In 1995 hair retrieved in Cape Elizabeth was positively identified. In 1994 IF&W officials took pictures of tracks in Northeast Maine near the Quebec border.
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