Real or fake? Bobcat attack on turkey

[spectr17]

Someone sent me this pic link by email. I had a coyote attack my turkey deke once and he hit it doing mach 4. There were skids marks in the field where the coyote tackled my decoy. Not sure if this pic is for reals or not.

 

[James Vee]

It's real hard to say. But, because it is most definitely possible I think that it could very well be real.

 

[wapiti]

I say it is a mount, someone just rode by the cam on an atv to trigger it. Look at the bobcat poses you have seen at taxidermists in that swatting a quail or grouse setting.

Cats are fast, but a gobbler would react in time to not be in strut when hit. JMHO

 

[jrichv]

Strutting? Maybe, or it may just be a result of getting struck (blind-sided) by a hungry bobcat... Maybe the bird just tensed up (a natural reaction?) and flared his fan... Who knows? Not trying to be negative re: Wapiti's comments - just wondering out loud here...

If a bobcat jumped me (or wild hog, etc.) and I managed to survive the initial attack and then survive the resulting heart attack, my first order of business would be to change my drawers... because they would definitely be soiled...

I hope its real, just because that would make it one of the most awesome pics ever caught on film. And on the flip-side, if it's fake - why do people bother wasting time and energy on deceiving others??? I just don't get those people...

jrichv

 

[zig]

If you look at the bottom of the turkey it looks as if its wings are in motion like they would be if it was in a struggle.

 

[wvhunter]

I have seen gobblers strut when startled in the fall, especially jakes but have seen older birds do it as well. From the dust it looks like the cat came from behind the camera and if it has about a 2 second delay a cat can cover alot of ground in 2 seconds. The position of the cat may be because it's backside didn't stop as fast as his front when it hit the bird.

I have no idea if it's fake or not, just throwing out some ideas. If it's real it is an awsome picture!

 

[tdhunter]

Could be real. Looks to me like the turkey went to fly and the cat had to jump up in the air to get him, and the camera snapped on the way back down. That or else the turkey is attacking the cat. ??? TD

 

[coyotebandit]

In case you have some spare time...

http://oemagazine.com/fromTheMagazine/jan05/photofakery.html

 

[Lurediver]

I believe it's real. Look at the feathers coming from the bird!

 

[Arrowhead]

Jesse >> I thought it was real.

I posted it here Jesse's Game Trail Pics Page a couple weeks ago.
I saw it on the PSE Forum and the guy that posted it said it was taken by a friend of his ion Oklahoma. I know niether of them though.

I thought it was real. The dust, the feathers. On heck of a battle.......

 

[TazBux]

I thought real.The cam has focused on the dust and grass(in forground).The cat is a little blurry through the in focuss dust.


Circled is what i believe to be the shadow on the dust.
Underlined is the shadow on ground.

 

[Dallas]

Looks real.

 

[Dead Deer Walking]

If it's a fake, it's a very good one!!!!

 

[The_Griz]

The situation doesn't look reasonable.

 

[Mossberg]

100% real. No doubt about it.

 

[wapiti]

It's real, a real mount...

 

[Eastky Bowhunter]

My

Its looks like a stuffed turkey. You can see the wood panel its attached to on the bottom. The bobcat looks real. Maybe the bobcat attacked the mounted turkey.

 

[The_Griz]

Let's get real here....it would take a bobcat from the time entering the left side of the picture until it would get in the position on top of the bird, 1/2 of a second. The scene is closer to the left part of the picture leaving less time for detection.

Would your sensor pick up the motion and take a picture that fast...NO way

Do you think cuddeback has a camera so fast that it will freeze frame a cat in the air at a high rate of speed and not be blurry...NO way

Someone used a power blower to blow a little dust up to blur the picture and staged the whole thing.

 

[Bareshaft]

I vote fake, I base that on the upward fanned tail feathers of a bird that trying to take flight and that the bobcats tail is tucked in tight to his body while upside down in mid air. Just my two cents.

 

[Mossberg]

Originally posted by The_Griz@Jan 23 2006, 09:07 AM
it would take a bobcat from the time entering the left side of the picture until it would get in the position on top of the bird, 1/2 of a second. 

Someone used a power blower to blow a little dust up to blur the picture and staged the whole thing.

Who said it came from the left side? Looks like it came from the right to me (as is evidenced by the dust trail), and the force of the impact spun him around. Listen, think logically about this one. Why in the world would a bobcat ambush a turkey through a wide open field??? The bobcat was probably hiding in the cover on the right side of the pic waiting for a time to ambush. Anyone that thinks a bobact just runs through an open field for its prey has not been out much.

From the looks of this, people will look for anything and come up with unreasonable scenarios just to call a pic a fake. This is what makes me want to not post my trail cam pics....everyone's always looking to put you down. If I captured a rare occurance on film I'd be called a liar and my pic would be a hoax. What gives?

However, I do agree that the turkey might be a mount...I have no way of telling the legitimacy of the turkey. Could be a decoy, a mount, or a real turkey.