Linda and Ralph and's Lion Page

Pictures of mountain lions, caught by our game camera. The game camera has been at the bottom of our driveway since mid-April 2015. It has caught roughly 50,000 pictures, most of them of nothing, or of neighbor's cars driving by. Plus hundreds of pictures of deers, squirrels, bobcats, coyotee, and foxes. The camera was gone several times, for weeks or months, and has also moved to the "bobcat knoll" hill.

Note that pictures around sunrise/sunset tend to be blurry: the camera has to use a long exposure in the dark, and the animals don't hold still. And pictures taken at night are dark, and the infrared illuminator of the camera has only limited range, so animals are often just blurry with bright eyes.

Here are all the pictures of mountain lions. We don't know how many distinct lions there are. Twice, we saw and adult with a cub (juvenile), in August 2015 and fall 2017, and once three lions simultaneously in February 2020 (likely one adult femals and two subadult cubs), which must all be different cubs. We simply assume that there is a single adult female, and have called her "La Gatita" (since our house cat was called "El Gato").

We also have interesting pictures of bobcat, coyote, and deer, see below.

Mother and cub, and cub by itself:

And more individual pictures:

The object on the right is the Christmas decoration (it's foggy and rainy):

Christmas decorations are gone again:

Photos after the camera was reinstalled in mid-August, slightly different position, higher up. Joe saw a female adult lion and three cubs near the slide on September 7.

More mother and cub pictures, two years after the previous picture of a juvenile (so this is a different cub, the previous one would be adult now, and lions protect their range):

The mother in daylight (1pm), at the left edge of the picture:

A juvenile (nearly full-grown) during broad daylight, in the center of the picture, moving slowly enough to get a clear shot. And then one minute later, our neighbor walking his dogs.

And back to boring lion pictures:

A rarity: Three lions at once (which must be mom with two nearly adult cubs). The second version is the same image cropped and lightened.

For comparison, here are a few other cute animals during daylight, including a few bobcats and coyotes, and our black and white house cat. Since the camera position is the same, you can compare the size of a bobcat (lynx) to the size of a mountain lion.