Deep tracks larger than a great blue heron.
~135 mm total length. Found under a stone in a shallow rocky stream.
Coordinates are deliberately imprecise.
The story of the last catamount found in Vermont can be read here: https://vermonthistory.org/explorer/people-places/animals-farm-wild/the-last-catamount-in-vermont
This male mountain lion - a migrant from South Dakota - was infamously struck 41-miles east of Greenwich, CT. This was the first verifiable documentation of a cougar in Connecticut since the 1890s. The attributed location and time is from where it was struck by a car. There is no breeding population of cougars in New England, though they historically occupied every continental US state.
Photos supplied with permission from the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (CT DEEP), Wildlife Division, courtesy of Cyndy Chanaca.
Individual photo credentials: Paul J. Fusco/ CT DEEP-Wildlife
Further reading:
Found as is, hanging in tree -- one foot is curled around the branch.
Myiopsitta monachus
12 Feb 2021
CA, IMP Co., Rockwood Park
Flat-tailed Horned LIzard