Fruitland Mesa, Colorado was the site of this "Cat" surveying the surrounding terrain from a tree............Bobcat or Lynx????? Learn how to distinguish in the picture/article below

Photo and text by

 Kathy Browning

Lynx or bobcat?

Doug Homan, formerly

 with the Division of Wildlife,

 confirmed this

 is a bobcat for the

 following reasons: its habitat, it

 doesn’t

 have a black tipped tail,

 both bobcats and lynx have tufts on

 the ears

 but the lynx tufts are

 longer, lynx have larger facial tuft and

 longer legs,

 and in the fall

 and winter bobcats have a grayish pelage

 which makes

 them look more like

a lynx. This bobcat was spotted Sunday

 on Fruitland Mesa, Colorado