A Mountain Lion Walked Here

Our glorious world - some trees are in all their autumn glory while others are still green.

On a different note about the beauty of our world, I found an interesting series of photos from two trail cameras very close to each other more than a week ago.

First, a big bull elk passed a camera in the wee hours of September 20th.

A little while later, a mountain lion passed the same camera, looking like he was tracking something.

Then, about 12 hours later, the mountain lion passed another trail camera about an eighth of a mile away. I wonder if he killed something in the area, and that's why he stayed nearby for those 12 hours.

Here's a second photo as the lion moved rapidly past the camera. It illustrates the raw power that this lion possesses.

I'm pretty sure that he was a male, because he left "scrapes" in the ground all around the area, a territorial marking behavior.

I haven't gone back to the area yet because I wanted to give him time, just in case he had a deer or elk carcass cached in that area. Winter is coming. The lion needs to fatten up without my interference.

The mountains that Shyla and I visited the other day were very wintery today! Winter is creeping down the mountains toward us...