Bobcats, an important natural resource to Massachusetts, are classified as a furbearer species. Bobcats are approximately twice the size of a domestic house cat. While being rare in southeastern Massachusetts, bobcats are common to central and Western Massachusetts. Bobcats frequent a variety of habitats, but they are shy and elusive, most active at night, making sightings by people uncommon. up. ... More bear sightings in western Massachusetts - … Bobcat track width, says Elbroch, ranges from 1 3/16 inches to 2 5/8 inches. … A bobcat is seen in Methuen, a car gets pulled out of a pond in Groton, and other odd tales from local police blotters. Food, habits, and habitat They are classified as a furbearer species, for which a management program and regulated hunting and trapping seasons have been established. Farmers in New Hampshire have shot bobcats… Sept. 16, 2013 Here in Massachusetts, I find that bobcat track width is usually 1 ½ – 2 ¼ inches. At the time of European settlement, the New England state of Massachusetts harbored three types of wild cats: the puma (also known as the cougar, mountain lion, catamount or panther), the Canada lynx and the bobcat. There was a sighting on Saturday of a bobcat walking nonchalantly down the long entrance road of the Ocean Spray plant. ... Bobcat sighting in Methuen Emily Sweeney 6/16/2020. After a reported sighting of a bear in Wrentham last week, area residents expressed concern again Sunday after a video of what appears to be a bobcat appeared on the

Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife said that although bobcats are common in the commonwealth, seeing one is quite rare. Of these, only the bobcat remains, the puma and lynx having been extirpated (locally eliminated) through hunting and habitat loss.
Posted: Sep 4, 2017 / 10:11 PM EDT / Updated: Sep 4, 2017 / 10:11 PM EDT. WHDH’s Alexandra Field reports. by its short, bobbed tail (up to 12 inches), prominent From bears to coyotes to bobcats! A management program and regulated hunting and trapping seasons have been established for the species. Voting closed 21. reply; Hybrid. Wattles said there’s an estimated 3,500 bobcats in Massachusetts. Western Massachusetts has become a home to many different kinds of wildlife. Bobcat body size varies regionally, and obviously larger individuals will have larger feet. (If you're wondering if a bobcat could be confused with one of those fabled mountain lion sightings in the Berkshires, a bobcat is far smaller and its tail is bobbed.) Given that the bobcat is the only widespread wild cat in Massachusetts (there have been a handful of mountain lion sightings, but they have very long tails, longer than their legs), this has to be a bobcat.

More bobcat sightings in western Massachusetts News. MEDWAY - A local bobcat who neighbors say has been touring their backyards for more than a year made an appearance via a hidden camera several weeks ago.

According to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, bobcats are common in the central and western parts of the state, but have been present in the eastern part of the state too.
Populations vary across the state, with highest density in central and western Massachusetts, lower density in the northeast, and they are rare to absent in the southeast.