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mudhead
10-10-2008, 20:36
I shone a white LED light on something nocturnal. 0400. Red eyes lit up. It scooted as I scuffed my foot. I had seen a skunk the night before and was paranoid.

It ran, and looped around, I lit it up again, and there were two. Moved like I picture a raccoon scooting in the dark. (Killer wolves?)

Can't recall different eye shine colors, and the internet wants to show me desert cottontails. And mothmen.

How about some eyeshine colors?

Alligator=red. (I am 99% positive it was not a gator.)

Fox?
Skunk?
Raccoon?
Coyote?
woodsy
10-10-2008, 21:03
Bigfoot, down on it's belly!
Hooch
10-10-2008, 21:16
The Geico gecko?
woodsy
10-10-2008, 22:08
the Chupacraba is said to have red eyes also. FYI
fancyfeet
10-10-2008, 22:39
According to extensive internet searching, I find that none of the animals you list will have red eyeshine.
Fox = yellow
Skunk = yellow/green (probably)
Racoon = yellow (see pic)
Coyote = white
Opossum = orange or pink
Some owls (Barred) have red eyeshine
AND...

Bears have a deep red eyeshine

BTW, in reference to gators, the adult males have the red eyeshine, while young and female gators reportedly have green.
DBT fan
10-11-2008, 03:01
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=7582&highlight=eye+reflection

From what I understand, only predators have red eye reflections, but I could be wrong.
Gaiter
10-11-2008, 03:39
how low to the ground was it?
mudhead
10-11-2008, 06:44
About what I would say was raccoon high, but pretty far apart for raccoon.

Now that I think about separation, it had a big head. It was overcast, dark as it gets with the moon gone past. I was mostly paranoid about stepping on a skunk in the dark. Beyond the spray, they have big teeth.

If it was bear, it could have had the common courtesy to let me see it with some daylight.
2XL
10-11-2008, 08:51
Could it have been a Fisher cat?
Porcupine?
sasquatch2014
10-11-2008, 09:00
where on the tail were you? ie what state. To some degree different states different wildlife.
mudhead
10-11-2008, 20:53
Eyes too far apart for fisher or porker. Two animals. Could turn whole head and look sideways, while ambling. Eyes forward, not a rabbit.

Near the Kennebec, in Maine.


I would prefer to never be that close to a fisher. I figure I can outrun a skunk.
Hooch
10-11-2008, 21:07
how low to the ground was it?It was so low it had to look up to see a lawyer. :eek::rolleyes::D
elray
10-11-2008, 21:46
One of these?
Hooch
10-11-2008, 21:54
One of these?
Nah, that doesn't look anything like a lawyer. :D
mudhead
10-12-2008, 09:08
Cool insect. What is it?
woodsy
10-12-2008, 09:26
Eyes too far apart for fisher or porker. Two animals. Could turn whole head and look sideways, while ambling. Eyes forward, not a rabbit.

Near the Kennebec, in Maine.


I would prefer to never be that close to a fisher. I figure I can outrun a skunk.
Have heard reports of Sidehill Gougers in that area, but have not seen one yet, were the eyes slightly out of level?
superman
10-12-2008, 10:02
It was so low it had to look up to see a lawyer. :eek::rolleyes::D

Hey, you may be talking about my ex.:D
STEVEM
10-12-2008, 11:35
You're all wrong. It was "Big Red Eye". The sightings referenced in the attached story are within a mile or two of my home.

http://www.weirdnj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102&Itemid=28
Frosty
10-12-2008, 13:39
evil deer
aaroniguana
10-12-2008, 22:41
Did it say "GET OUT!" in a hoarse, throaty voice?
fancyfeet
10-13-2008, 00:53
Not a cow... These cows have headlights.