I was surprised to see a video, supposedly shot last Saturday, of a Lynx in a families yard in Lexington, Michigan. Lexington is in the S.E. area of the "Thumb", in Sanilac co. You can Google "Lexington, Mi. Lynx video". I don't know how to do the link deal (lynx deal?).

P.S. to above...the last confirmed Lynx in Michigan was in the eastern end of the U.P. (Mackinac co.?) way back in 2003 or 2004 I believe. As far as I can find, the last "original" Lynx were seen in the Lower Peninsula in 1917, near Grayling. U.P. Lynx turn up every now and then, and were legal to hunt when I was too young to do it.
The last legally taken Lynx was shot in Mackinac co. in the late 50's. I used to bear hunt with the guy that shot it. He got it in front of his hounds.

Isn't that the same general location that had the wolverine about 10 years ago?

Kind of.

Dang Canadian garbage trucks bringing in all kinds of undesirables....

A lynx was caught in a coyote set in the Hiawatha National Forest awhile back,the guy took pictures of it and it made the front page of the Escanaba Daily Press.That maybe the one you mentioned around 2004 or 2005,I can't remember when it took place,I didn't think it was that long ago but I could be wrong.I remember back in the '80's a guy from Mackinac County telling me about his first attempt at 'cat trapping,when he checked his set he had a lynx.He said he stood there looking at it wondering how he was going to let it go when it backed away from him(he said he had about 3' of chain on the trap)and took off ,it hit the end of the chain and flipped out of the trap.I remember old timers talking about them but I never saw hide nor hair of one.Sure is a surprise seeing one in the lower peninsula.

The trapped one was the one I wrote about. I'm not sure of the year either.

Possibly?
Rare lynx captured on video in Michigan’s Thumb region- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TpBU-2nbis

Michigan DNR: Animal caught on video could be rare lynx- https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan-dnr-animal-caught-on-video-could-be-rare-lynx

Lynx are pretty commonly kept as pets. I imagine some wild animals travel very far on their own. I imagine people move some animals pretty far too.

Keith

Couple of years ago they had a wolverine roaming thumb of Michigan. Wolf drove it out of the U.P.

Really I'm not sure how the Wolverine got there, anybody else know?

heck,we had a monkey runnin around a small town here a couple years ago til it got cold and was never saw again.nobody would fess up to having it get loose.the biggest guy in the stone quarry with us came to work and said a monkey just crossed the road in front of him.boss chuckled it up good at the guy till it did it to him a couple days later.

I live just a few miles from where the wolverine was sighted. Emterra has a large landfill very near there with a steady delivery of garbage from Canada.
Not too hard to imagine the short ride in the back of a truck. As to the Lynx, who knows? Lexington is not far from Canada either.