Haha. That's fantastic! What an expression.
Another biologist's report I read said that they thought it was possibly a mother with her three cubs, and that mother's daughter from a previous season, with her three cubs. Either way, very cool. I've had numerous trail cameras up around this state in the past, but have never seen anything like this. I've seen bear, coyote, pine martin, deer, elk, and a single cougar. This is great, though.
The first cougar I saw was with my high school sweetheart, on our way back down a local hiking trail, on prom night. It followed us down to the parking lot from about mid-mountain (where I first spotted it with my flashlight.) When I turned on the headlights, it was about 75 yards away crouched down in the field.
The second one I saw was up near Blue River, standing in the middle of the road. This one bounced away mighty quickly.
The third I saw while bowhunting for deer up near Willamette Pass. Something caught the corner of my eye, so I rounded the corner of a little revine expecting to see a blacktail, but instead saw a young male cougar lying down on a fallen young fir, swaying his tail back and forth. I walked the 2 miles back to my car, backwards!
