Hi,

Both bobcats and cougars can reflect yellow to green colors in their eyes
at night.

thanks,

Guy L. Monty
Parksville, BC


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Duke" <dukec at cc.wwu.edu>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 8:18 PM
Subject: Green Eyed Monster...


> Hello all,
>
> I was in Idaho over the Holiday, had an interesting thing to request some
> help with. I was in the woods at night looking for noctournal beasties,
> and came accross a pair of glowing green eyes from my flashlight. They
> were positioned on the other side of a very deep ravine, and did not move
> at all in the 20 min. period of time that I was looking at them.
> Unfortunately, I have no other helpful info, my leading guess was a
> Great-Horned Owl, but I was under the impression that they sent back RED
> eyeshine. Any suggestions, including non-avian possibilities?
>
> Chris Duke
> Bellingham, WA
> dukec at cc.wwu.edu
>