Posted: 9/6/2007 5:55:34 PM EDT
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hi folks. I was using my sure fire to spot deer in my apple orchard (not to shoot but to cuss at) and I panned over away from all the sets of green eyes bobbing up and down, and to my left across the road, but closer than the deer, were a broad set of red orange eyes. Scare d the shit out of me, as they did not blink, did not bob up and down and just stared at me. The deer eyes move like a deer head, I can follow the eyes and just see the deer behavior behind the eye movement. The red eyes however, were motionless, and were broad, set wide apart. I know we have coyotes. I don't think we have bears. We killed a 45 pound bobcat last year. What is the most likely reason for the eyes? |
| Spiders, no I'm not joking. My wife was using a spotlight to check the garden and orchard a few weeks ago when she saw a large number of red eye reflections, that did not move even when she let the dogs out. So to calm her down I had to take the light (and pistol) and go investigate. The eye reflections did not move as I got closer, when I got to the garden, I found large brown wolf spiders on top of the okra and the tomato plants, I guess they were waiting for their supper to fly by. |
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if they didn't run off then it probably wasn't a coon. I have seen red coon eyes and they will stare for a bit but then look away because the light hurts their eyes. I bet it was spiders as well. How far away were they and what was the relative size compared to a deer at the same distance. of course it could have been zombies too....you never know 
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| The color of the "eye shine" is determined by the angle the light reflects of the eyeball. Deer eyes can shine blue, green, amber and rarely red. Could have been a deer further away wasnt as blinded by the light and was not trying to look over or around the bright light in its eyes. They can appear not to blink for long periods of time. |