Kat's Mountain Lion Photos (Trail Camera Photography)
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It’s been busy here in the last fews days.
First….I saw one from the kitchen an hour ago casually walking in the rain toward the back of the barn.
This morning I checked the four cameras behind the barn and over the few days there have been 4 different big cats. I have several videos too but with the rain my internet is too spotty to upload those.
This big collared/tracked male from this morning
There’ll be multiple posts because I don’t know how to control the order they appear in the post…
Then there’s this young one, another male. I will show how I know that on the next post.
He rested in front of this camera for five minutes. I have a few videos of that.
They all look the same until you look closer ( plus I have other footage to help me)
Look at the time stamp too.
This first one is a male. More pictures show black under the tail etc. His tail seems a bit thinner than the other two youg cats and a thin tail means an older cat. I would say older than 3 but not by much…maybe 5. He’d have  more scars and his head would be much bigger if he was older than that.
About 12 hours later, last night, come two younger  cats together. The first one here
And both of them here. Can’t tell the sex. These must be those two I got on video a couple of days ago . Like I said on my other post, they are probably the two yearlings that I got travelling with mom a while back. It’s not unusual for them to be together for a while after they leave mom.
So to tally them….
Since I started this, the biggest and oldest male that used to rule around here has been gone over a year now. In this lower area behind the barn and toward the creek and probably up the next mountain on the other side of the creek, the new boss seems to be that collared male. He does not come around up higher on this  ridge. A younger male with a limpy shoulder seems to be have claimed that territory.
Then there is an occasional younger male that is collared but I have not seen him in over 3 months. Then we have the first one I ever got, she’s been gone for over a year. She had a distinct little split in the ear and I have not seen her.
Then the mom of these two big kittens .
Then this male here.
Then a young ( 3 years old) mom with 3 little guys. She’s been my most frequent visitor here until she took her litter further up the hill. I know her because I got her as a young cat, about a year old, and she had a big chunk of flesh missing from above her tail. She still has a scar that I can see on any shot from behind. I did not know she had kittens until she took them out and about and then away.
There could have been more; ofetn I have no idea who it is from a few shots. Now and then I see exactly who it is by scars, mostly tears on the ears.
I was offered a monthly gig at the resort :)
While they are offering it for free to guests, I will get paid well for doing something I love.
If you are near the central coast, stop by..
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