Mountain Lion photographed in Kansas

[thriftylefty]

MOUNTAIN LION CONFIRMED IN LABETTE COUNTY / 10-23-14 / Weekly News / News / KDWPT Info / KDWPT - KDWPT

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by KsStorm

HUNTER PHOTOGRAPHS MOUNTAIN LION IN NORTHWEST KANSAS / 10/19/09 KDWP Special News / Weekly News / News / KDWP Info / KDWP - KDWP
There's not a picture posted yet, but I knew we had them, in spite of the "official" story that we don't.

I saw one 1 mile south of the Argosy Casino in Kansas City about 5 years ago.

It was on the east side of 435 on the hillside right before you cross the river when headed north.

It was dragging a dead deer up the hill, so the movement was hard to miss.

They are ALL OVER now. Keep your eyes peeled.

[MOKAN]

^Seriously? Are you sure it wasn't a bobcat? I know stuff happens that's hard to believe, but it's still hard to believe, especially with the idea that it was carrying a deer when you saw it.

[luzianne]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

I'm not sure where the official story came from but they hit and killed one on the interstate by the KC airport >5 years ago and thats about 10miles from the border.

They've been WIDELY seen and documented all over Kansas for over a decade now.

Latest sighting I heard was a jogger near Lawrence.

Yep, this is what I was going to say. Mountain lions in Kansas is nothing new.

On another note, I have seen red foxes pretty often in Prairie Village, at night/early morning. Have seen them in my back yard, down the street in a neighbor's front yard, and in Franklin Park.

[Mattks]

Originally Posted by luzianne

Yep, this is what I was going to say. Mountain lions in Kansas is nothing new.

On another note, I have seen red foxes pretty often in Prairie Village, at night/early morning. Have seen them in my back yard, down the street in a neighbor's front yard, and in Franklin Park.

I've seen maybe 3 red foxes in 4-5 years, but my neighbor claims there is a family behind our home, but I've never seen them, occasionally we get deer in our yard. We live in a ruralish area.

I swear when I was 13 or so I saw a Polar Bear on a hill off I-70 between Lawrence and Kansas City, ok obviously it couldn't be true, but I still wonder what it could have been.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by MOKAN

^Seriously? Are you sure it wasn't a bobcat? I know stuff happens that's hard to believe, but it's still hard to believe, especially with the idea that it was carrying a deer when you saw it.

It was a mountain lion, it was bigger than the dead doe it was dragging plus the big long tail.

I've seen bobcat in the Shawnee\Lenexa area in recent years and met a guy years ago out in Utah when I was working there one summer who raised bobcat and lynx and I got to go see all his cats up close and personal.....on top of being pretty much a nature show nerd.

That's actually not THAT far from where a driver hit one on the interstate up near the airport.

What sucked is that as I spotted it....bang...I'm right at the bridge and I can't pull over onto the shoulder and back up because there isn't a shoulder lol. So I went across the bridge, turned around at the argosy exit and came back but it was hard to see from the other side (I was driving a corvette and sit so low in it that it's hard to see with the barriers etc.) so I then went up to the next exit so I could drive past again and by then it was gone, probably up over the hill which isn't that big.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by luzianne

Yep, this is what I was going to say. Mountain lions in Kansas is nothing new.

On another note, I have seen red foxes pretty often in Prairie Village, at night/early morning. Have seen them in my back yard, down the street in a neighbor's front yard, and in Franklin Park.

Yep. I had a red fox living under my porch a couple years ago, right in the middle of Lenexa.

I've seen bobcat, turkey, deer, coyote, possum, groundhog, racoon, greathorned owls etc....all within a mile of the Lenexa police station.

The coolest thing I've seen other than the mountain lion was a hummingbird MOTH. Yes, moth. Check them out on-line, they are around.

[KsStorm]

http://youtu.be/To9OCND5sgk

Kinda looks like house cat to me...

[thriftylefty]

https://www.kmbc.com/article/animals...urism/36647694

They'er back

[Bluefox]

The males of the Black Hills population are known to travel far and wide in search of new territory so I’m not surprised to see them in Kansas. Now, if they can confirm a breeding population in the state I’d be very surprised.