Who´s chasing who? Part two

Raili called me yesterday before reaching the office: „With whom do You think I am staring right now just in the face?“ We have pretty good mutual understanding already, so it took me no time to ask: „No kidding? A Lynx?“ And Lynx it was. As Raili said, big and gaudy. She even sweared that she could see its intelligent eyesight through the binoculars.

Quick discussion - what to do? Such a chance –  straight onto fresh tracks. „Off we go!“

A large and gorgeous Lynx had been standing, when Raili saw it, in the middle of the field, about 100 metres from the road. Then it had turned around and walked with slow pace towards the forest.

From this point we started to chase it

 In most places the snow had been hard enough to hold the animal, 

so we even did not see all the footprints

 Slight adrenalin was boiling up – so fresh tracks, thrilling ...

Somewhat ancient and mysterious – we are tracking a Lynx ...

Wow! What's that? Absolutely fresh stuff. A mother bear with two cubs has woken up!

 The adrenalin tap was almost fully open – dangerous, y'know!

Too many irons in the fire, so we continued with the Lynx. Looks like this Lynx is using its own old traces or simply keeping close. Very strange experience.

Snow under the forest was too soft and we were in up to the knees. I even tried to yowl for a change. It was funny – we had constantly the feeling that the Lynx was somewhere nearby, tongue in the cheek :)

Why waste the energy? The Lynx is clever – it's much easier 

to move along the bottom of the ditch.

So it is true – lynxes are prowling near the settlement! This household here is having a big and vicious dog and there's no fence in the backyard. We were careful, Lynx hadn't bothered.

  We see clearly the old traces. The Lynx has ignored the dog

 Tracks cross now the big Tallinn – Virtsu road

  

On the other side ... we headed back to the woods, yowling every now and then

There's a chain saw working, barely couple of hundred meters off. In the other direction there are houses about as far.

So ... suddenly we noticed that the Lynx had turned around. But when?

It cannot be! When we were coming, were there only one-way traces? We were completely fooled. There had been a moment, that we had missed completely, when the Lynx had stayed in hiding perhaps only ten metres aside.

 Here it has crossed the village road again, just at the houses

 On our right there's the Tallinn - Virtsu road

Enough for this time. Our feet were dripping wet, but the spirit was really high :)