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Night eyeshine: that eerie reflective glow that definitely isn't a deer or coyote
#1 · September 28, 2026, 10:54 PM
Anyone who drives country roads or walks the woods at night knows standard eyeshine—deer reflect pale greenish-yellow, raccoons shine red, and domestic cats glow bright gold. Your headlights catch them, and you instinctively identify the animal by how high the eyes sit and how far apart they're spaced.
But every now and then, a hunter or backroad driver catches two glowing eyes six or seven feet off the ground, spaced way too wide for any native predator, that stare straight into the high beams without blinking before backing into the tree line. Have you ever spotted reflective eyeshine out in the dark that made your stomach drop because the height and spacing made zero sense?