Well, the Mountain Lion is back. On Friday, about 60 minutes before dark, the Mountain Lion returned, and was less than 20
yards from the motorhome stalking a Coues deer doe and fawn.
We heard the mama deer crying out, looked out the windows and saw her and the fawn acting strangely.
The doe kept crying out. Looked out another window and saw the mountain lion croutched under a tree right off our patio side less than 20 yards from us, and about 20-30 yards from the deer.
Sandy and I had our cameras out and were just focusing when the lion took off after the baby deer, and chased it into the woods towards the creek about 50 - 80 yards away (no pics of the lion this time).
For about 15 minutes afterwards the doe wandered around crying out looking for the fawn.
This morning we saw a doe cruising the edge of the woods - probably the mother looking for the fawn.
Today the Preserve Manager, his ranch cattle dog, and Dan walked the entire preserve trail system, checked part of the creek, and checked the area the cat and fawn dis-appeared.
No sign of the kill, if there is one. But the fawn was small, cat large. It could have eaten some and carried the rest off across the creek a distance - where we did not go. No sign of a doe and fawn together yet.
The Manager has closed the Preserve for at least one week to visitors. He may contact fish and game who may or may not come out for a look.
Dan weed wacked more vegetation all around the motorhome - 30 yards out for a better visual range. Most of it was already mowed, except under the trees were overgrown with 3-4 foot tall grass.
More of the original Mt Lion pics from Wednesday below.
We heard the mama deer crying out, looked out the windows and saw her and the fawn acting strangely.
The doe kept crying out. Looked out another window and saw the mountain lion croutched under a tree right off our patio side less than 20 yards from us, and about 20-30 yards from the deer.
Sandy and I had our cameras out and were just focusing when the lion took off after the baby deer, and chased it into the woods towards the creek about 50 - 80 yards away (no pics of the lion this time).
For about 15 minutes afterwards the doe wandered around crying out looking for the fawn.
This morning we saw a doe cruising the edge of the woods - probably the mother looking for the fawn.
Today the Preserve Manager, his ranch cattle dog, and Dan walked the entire preserve trail system, checked part of the creek, and checked the area the cat and fawn dis-appeared.
No sign of the kill, if there is one. But the fawn was small, cat large. It could have eaten some and carried the rest off across the creek a distance - where we did not go. No sign of a doe and fawn together yet.
The Manager has closed the Preserve for at least one week to visitors. He may contact fish and game who may or may not come out for a look.
Dan weed wacked more vegetation all around the motorhome - 30 yards out for a better visual range. Most of it was already mowed, except under the trees were overgrown with 3-4 foot tall grass.
More of the original Mt Lion pics from Wednesday below.
How cool that you have gotten to see a mountain lion that close by.
ReplyDeleteYou know, when I read your last post about the mountain lion and then the pictures of the doe and fawn, I thought to myself....hmmmm, I hope the cat doesn't have access to the internet. Apparently it does.
ReplyDeleteThat's so sad! We have deer around our house quite a bit. We try to remember to keep the gates closed so they won't eat our plants. We had a deer and her fawn hanging around a lot this summer.
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