Mountain Lion Sightings

Between 9 and 10 PM: Alpine and Willowbrook

> I reported seeing a mountain lion on Monday night at 9:30 on Alpine Road across from Corte Madera, 100 yards from our home. This very large male lion has been reported in the vicinity of Willowbrook and Alpine the last three nights between 9 and 10. My boys and I saw it on the cut through trail that kids take back and forth to school between Alpine and Willowbrook. He is at least 120 pounds, 5 feet long with a 4 foot long tail - he's beautiful, strong and well fed...he also looks as big as an African lion...no exaggeration lgiampa

8 PM: 501 Portola Road in the South West area of the parking lot

10:30 PM: 145 Grove Drive

10:30 AM/PM: (Saturday) at 10:30 there were two mountain lions on our lane (called Forrest View). This is right off of Portola Rd. near Phillips Road. For those, who know our lane, the mountain lions were walking on the road near the bend where our water tower is located.

This is our second sighting in a month.

As we were driving up the hill and rounded the corner, one of the mountains lion went in the woods heading down the hill. The other one ran up along the road for a while and then crossed into the woods, and then was heading down the hill as well.

Monday morning we found a partially consumed, disemboweled deer carcass in our back yard on Meadowood. Tuesday morning the carcass had been moved and a little more consumed. We had the carcass removed since it was close to the house and getting ripe in the heat.

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just after 1:00 PM: JRBP ...our attention was drawn to two bucks running through the corp yard not far from us. Not far behind them was a mountain lion in pursuit. They disappeared into the brush headed for the front gate while the four us excitedly exchanged our perceptions of what we just saw.

We will stay attentive for signs of the mountain lion’s success, however, this should also serve as an advisory to all that this mountain lion, at least, is active in the middle of the day so everyone should be very cautious all the time and everywhere at Jasper Ridge. This event occurred just after 1:00 p.m.

I think this took place fairly close to the buildings, so in a part of JR where there are a lot of humans.

In any event, there's a local mountain lion that is hunting mid-day. Seems like there's a good chance that it's territory overlaps at least one MROSD preserve.

around 8:45 AM: > This morning around 8:45 am I found a deer killed by a mountain lion. It probably was killed at a different location and had been disemboweled and dragged to the trail off of Westridge, just west of Mapache. I called the sheriff and he agreed it had been killed by a mountain lion. Animal control may have already removed the carcass but I thought a heads up was in order. They are active down in our area because there is no water in the foothills. > Barbara Hugli

The deer carcass was removed from the busy intersection of Mapache/Westridge to ensure safety in an area near homes where there is a lot of foot and bike traffic. Although I would find it amazing to observe a puma in the wild, I would prefer not to read a report on the PVForum about a person or child on the trail at dawn or dusk who surprised a mountain lion while he was feeding. The lion will definitely kill another deer but the hope is that is will be in a less traveled area.

in the meadow near Corte Madera School and the ranch behind Thistle. Ann Steiner

Deer carcass found in meadow between Coal Mine View and Buckeye in Portola Valley Ranch, Sunday. Body was of a juvenile deer. All that remained were the front legs, skull, spine, and rib cage.

This morning my neighbor behind me at 140 Ramona Rd witnessed her cat being attacked and killed by what she described as a juvenile mountain lion. Erika Demas

This might be the same one I saw yesterday morning at 159 Ramona. Lisa Staprans

7 PM: Los Trancos and Oak Forest Court. Ran away when sighted.

9:50 PM: at the corner of Canyon and Groveland by Heather Asborno

11:45 PM: I'm waiting for my heart to settle down!

I was watching some TV in our family room (the lights were low) when I heard a'clunk' at the window right next to me -- and turned my head to see a rather large mountain lion looking right at me, about 2 ft. away. I imagine it didn't see the glass with the lights lowered and bumped into it. It just turned around and ambled down our driveway (Vista Verde Way) Hope everyone's pets are in! It triggered our motion sensor lights and came right up to the house, so it's pretty bold! Deb Smith

8:15 AM: Felicity Barringer: To let Windy Hill hikers know: I ran into a cougar/puma on the Betsy Crowder trail at 8:15 in the morning last Thursday. It was about 1/2 mile up from the Portola Road parking lot. It was smaller than I imagined, long and lean with a long switching tail. It seemed to be stalking deer that I heard jumping in the woods below -- this was not far before the trail opens out into a hillside meadow with a bench. The lion was not threatening, and trotted off as my dog and I turned a corner and came in full view of it, perhaps 20 feet away. I'm now avoiding that trail -- my favorite -- before 10 A.M.

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8:50 PM: Jason Donahue, 123 Pinon We had two male mountain lions fighting in our yard about 20 minutes ago. There is a third nearby, possibly more. The lions are currently between Pinon and Ramoso. The smaller male was injured, as the larger one bit the leg of the smaller one and shook hard. The smaller one played dead until the larger one left and then the smaller one limped into the trees between Pinon and Ramoso. We still hear fighting and growling in the trees behind our yard. I will try to post videos to YouTube and forward around. I was able to take five or six short videos. I wanted to get this posted though in case there are small animals or children about.

I have posted the YouTube links to the videos I was able to take below.

More detail: Around 8:00 tonight, we heard some growling and breaking of branches in the trees behind our yard. The growling became louder and louder until it was clear that two animals were fighting. My son, wife, and I went to a window and saw two mountain lions fighting and rolling on our lawn near the creek that goes through our yard. One of the lions was able to get on top of the other lion and then bit into the second lion's hind leg. The first lion held this grasp for maybe 30 seconds and then shook the leg of the second lion in its mouth. Then the second lion tried to get up and the first lion pushed the second over the 4-foot retaining wall into our stream. At this point, the second lion had unfortunately become injured so it took on a passive demeanor in what appeared to be a strategy to show submissiveness to the first lion. It lied on its back and put all four of its paws up in the air.

Starting at about this point I was able to get my phone and take video, so unfortunately I did not capture the fighting described above.

The larger lion inspected the smaller lion acting passively on his back and went in several times for swipes at the smaller lion. During these occasions, the smaller lion swiped and growled back. After about 5 minutes of this, the larger lion jumped out of our stream, walked away about 15 meters towards our play structure, and marked the ground. The seven videos I posted below covered what happened in this paragraph.

The larger lion then went under our fence and into the trees between Pinon and Ramoso.

At this point, we were afraid that the smaller lion might have been mortally wounded since he didn't move for a minute or two. Then we saw his head pop up and look at us over the retaining wall for about 30 seconds. Then he stood up and ambled up the other side of our stream bank into the trees. He clearly had a significant limp on his right leg. We hope he is able to recover.

After this, we continued to hear fighting, growling, and some breaking branches in the trees. I still hear fighting now almost 90 minutes later. I am pretty sure there is at least one more mountain lion we didn't see in the trees near our home, as we heard a growl of a third lion come from the trees when the two other lions were in our yard.

at dawn: N. Shostak nshostak@aol.com

Be very careful when you go out after dark. This morning at dawn, a pair of young mountain lions, possibly siblings hunting as a team, was sighted on Larguita Lane, two very short blocks from the corner of Westridge and Mapache. A couple of weeks ago, a deer was killed in the same area, and the carcass completely disappeared without a trace within two days. At the time, we suspected a mountain lion but hadn't actually seen one until today. I reported today's sighting to the Sheriff's office (non-emergency number) a few hours later. They want us to call immediately after a sighting so they can possibly find the animal(s).

around 9:30 PM: Atlee Frechette, Webb Ranch manager atlee@webbranchinc.com; Last night around 9:30pm a mountain lion entered one of our fenced yards and attacked and killed one of our small family dogs (while sitting on the porch!)

This is the first time we’ve experienced a mountain lion attacking a dog on the ranch. Please look out for the safety of your pets at night.

Meg Abraham.
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megabraham60 via pvforum.us

This is very likely the same mountain lion, or one of her cubs born on the Stanford wedge property last summer. The Mountain lion moved in to the Wedge at the time of the unsucesefull attempt by Stanford to use goats to clear the property. The cat killed a large number of goats over several days and then stayed to have cubs. We could hear them on the hill they were so close. She became very accustom to killing domesticated animals as well as being around dogs and people. It is now very dangerous indeed

about 12:30 AM: Roberta Zarea: Last night at about 12:30 am, a rather large mountain lion killed a deer and ate it in front of the PVSD DO last night (next to Corte Madera School).

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There have been quite a few lions roaming the Sweet Springs Trail. There are at least two, one with a radio collar and one without. July 1: 6 AM radio collar; July 8: 1AM no radio collar; July 11 3:40 AM no radio collar; July 16: 4:45 AM, radio collar; July 20 11:15PM radio collar. Scott Elrod

early this morning: cjonesy via pvforum.us <cjonesy=yahoo.com@pvforum.us

A big healthy lion strolled across our driveway early this morning. On Golden Oak near Holden Court.

last night / around 5 PM: Laural Lynch We had a big mountain lion visit us last night in the area of Ramoso and Paloma.

Dan Cornew Adding my experience with one a few weeks ago to help folks not fear these creatures as much as one might. Caveat: Be cautious… but know they are probably not interested in even seeing you.

I was riding my bike up Willowbrook about 3 weeks ago at around 5pm. About 100 yards before the rise to the T with Alpine a huge Mountain Lion just walked across the street toward Windy Hill. I was about 100 yards away approaching fast and with a bear bell on my bike so it had to hear me.

It didn’t even turn to look at me. Just kept walking. Didn’t even speed up.

Cool part is that when I got to where it went into the brush (actually someones property with heavy brush) you couldn’t hear a thing. No rustling, no nothing. Stealth.

Anyway, my point is be cautious, but do not fear.

Dene Rowell via pvforum.us <denerowell=yahoo.com@pvforum.us>
Wed, Aug 30 at 7:21 AM
last night a mtn lion jumped our fully fenced horse fence and killed one of our goats in our pasteur on susal

Kerry Brown via pvforum.us <kb94028=yahoo.com@pvforum.us
Wed, Aug 30 at 11:06 AM
So sorry about your goats! Your chainlink fence appears to be 9' tall, I believe, from what I see. We heard the lion, coyotes, bobcats, owls and a hundred other animals screeching around midnight-- quite the noise!Two packs of coyotes, around 8-9, were in our yard at the top of Palmer yesterday morning at 7:30am for around 20+ minutes of greetings and fighting over deer parts or something similar. The bunnies and foxes are gone today and I assume the mountain lion or coyotes are still nearby. The photo is of a deer attacked by a mountain lion a few years ago and thrown against our back sliding door window on the second floor. The bobcats and coyotes fought with the mountain lion over the deer for 2-3 days after I dragged it a few hundred feet away from the house.

Gary Hanning and Dennis DeBroeck: mountain lion of deck of 220 Golden Hills and coming down Deer Park Lane.

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