HomeSightings
Early evening
I work on Research Parkway in Meriden. I was leaving our building on Deerfield Lane around 6:30 pm. I was getting dark outside. As I pulled up to the stop sign I saw a large cat crossing the road in front of me about 50 yards away. I rolled fight through the stop sign with …
Dead Cat on Rt. 2 Several Years Ago
Several years ago, my wife and I were traveling west down Rt 2, and we saw what was almost certainly a dead mountain lion on the side of the highway, between exit 10 and exit 12 (Glastonbury/Marlborough area). We got off the exit, and came back around again to get another look, but were unable …
Mountain lion (?) Bugbee woods, West Hartford
In 2008, my daughter (who has an obsessive knowledge of wildlife in the area) saw a single very large, tan cat-like animal with a long tail at the edge of the Bugbee woods near Bugbee school in West Hartford. This was during the school day. She was about ten at the time. She said that …
Young Animal on Route 37
Screaming
The weds. before Labor Day we were awakened by an uncanny screaming in the yard outside our home. It was between 4 and 5 AM and continued in bursts of 3 or 4 screams in succession followed by a pause of several minutes. This continued for about 30 mins. After we told friends about it …
A Majestic Animal in Westerly, RI
About two years ago, I was looking out my bedroom window which overlooks woods, fields, and wetlands. There, walking along haybales which my neighbor had set out to prevent run-off into the wetlands as he worked in his field, was a mountain lion which sauntered casually along the length of the bales. I had plenty …
Mountain Lion Sighting in Glastonbury
I spotted (what I firmly believe was) a mountain lion crossing the street while driving in Glastonbury on November 8, 2012. It was about 8:30 in the morning and was just west of the intersection of Neipsic Road and Brook Street. The cat was probably between 85 and 125 pounds. I called the DEEP the …
Mountain lion in Chepachet RI
Quit mid-day mountain lion sighting in chepachet RI. a mountain lion causally walked out of the woods skirting the edge of a field approaching my house, walked within 10′ of the house and back deck, through the yard crossed the driveway and the out the side yard into another pasture. It stopped and glanced at …
Mountain lion in Somers
Hi I have 50 acres wooded with a river we were trimming trees by the river and a mountain lion crossed the road about 20 feet from us. I am a wildlife rehabber in somers. definitely not a bobcat. long tail. He paused and looked at us then continued on his way casually
Sighting in South Windsor
I spotted the mountain lion at around 6:00 PM on Wednesday, October 17th. We were traveling north on Buckland Road, with the Cumon Inn to our right and the Shoppes at Evergreen Walk to our left. The animal crossed the road in front of us traveling west, leaving the field north of the Cumon Inn, …
Possible Mountain Lion in Roxbury,CT
Yesterday, Saturday October 6, 2012 we were driving on South Street in Roxbury, CT,when my brother and I saw what appeared to be a big black cat with a long tail. It was on the shoulder of the road when it jumped into the woods and it was gone. Today, my brother was looking at …
