{"id":2507,"date":"2019-03-01T12:48:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T19:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2020-01-20T11:40:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T18:40:41","slug":"mountain-lion-in-la-honda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/01\/mountain-lion-in-la-honda\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Lion in La Honda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I decided to check my trail cam after a <g class=\"gr_ gr_9 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"9\" data-gr-id=\"9\">couple<\/g> months. Dreading going through the expected 500 pictures of squirrels and antler less blacktail deer. I get to a pic that looks like a bobcat, eyes glowing behind the brush. Just about died when a big mountain lion steps out. I captured three nice pictures of the cat approaching my trail cam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trail cam is at a natural blacktail deer sanctuary spot on my home property in La Honda, CA. There is a deer trail leading up from the creek to a little landing where many <g class=\"gr_ gr_23 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"23\" data-gr-id=\"23\">does<\/g> and fawns bed and bucks rub their horns on a nice low willow branch.  I captured a picture of a mountain lion two years ago but his head was outside of the picture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lion-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lion-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lion-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lion-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>First Mountain Lion picture from 2016<br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly this was a lion but was so disappointing to have his face off camera. Now two years later here is the sequence from January 2019. Was a little concerning to see since he&#8217;s headed right up to where my wife Kari has the suburban and she often takes the cover off late at night before trailering her horse the next day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION2-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION2-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION2-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION2-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>M2E64A70L0-92.6900024-92.6900024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION3-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION3-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION3-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION3-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION3-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION4-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION4-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION4-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION4-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LION4-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to check my trail cam after a couple months. Dreading going through the expected 500 pictures of squirrels and antler less blacktail deer. I get to a pic that looks like a bobcat, eyes glowing behind the brush. Just about died when a big mountain lion steps out. I captured three nice pictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,20],"tags":[108,33],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountain-lion","category-trail-cam","tag-mountain-lion","tag-trailcam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}