Grande Prairie photographer captures ‘unreal’ quarrel between lynx

Amos Wiebe was pushing down a logging highway nearby Grande Prairie on a eve of Mar 21 when he beheld something in a trees.

The hobby photographer was out looking for owls, though what he saw was somewhat more ferocious: dual lynx, chasing any other adult a tree.

He slammed on a brakes and motionless to get a small closer.

After walking by about 4 feet of sleet for half an hour, he finally reached the tree. By then, the lynx that he figured was a masculine had walked away.

But he stayed and shot some photos of a womanlike as she remained sitting in a tree. She seemed distracted, staring past his head.

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“All of a remarkable we listened screaming behind me and afterwards dual some-more lynx came using right about 7 to 10 feet behind me,” Wiebe said.

“I had dual cans of bear mist and pulled a valves only for reserve reasons. They only went using right by me. And a one cruises right behind adult a tree and starts chasing her again. She’s only overhanging and screaming, it was flattering wild.

“Those trees were outrageous and how they only ran adult them like there was zero to it. It kind of puts a fear into you.”

‘The screaming was only … chilling.’
– Amos Wiebe

As a lynx duked it out around 100 feet above him, Wiebe held it all on camera. Eventually, a masculine lynx cautiously stepped down from a tree and walked divided with a womanlike that had been following him.

He stayed until eve examination a remaining womanlike lynx in a tree, then walked behind to his truck.

He after posted a photos and video to his Facebook page, Famous Amos Photography. 

Wiebe, who manages a storage trickery in Grande Prairie, doesn’t wish to contend accurately where he speckled a lynx. He wants to safeguard they aren’t bothered.

He says there have been a lot of rabbits in a Grande Prairie area this year, so he’s seen a lot of lynx around.

But this sighting was different — he says witnessing a lovers’ argue was one of a many extraordinary practice of his life.

“They were apparently in heat,” he said. “But a screaming was only … chilling. It was just, make your hair mount on edge. The fad was only unreal.”

Wiebe says a lynx frequency paid any courtesy to him as he shot photos and video of a fight. (Supplied/Amos Wiebe)

Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/lynx-fight-grande-prairie-1.4593620?cmp=rss