Thursday, February 23, 2012
A resident reported seeing a mountain twice on Tuesday near Moeser Lane and Contra Costa Drive, according an email alert from the Arlington Neighbors email list.
An El Cerrito resident living near Moeser Lane and Contra Costa Drive reported seeing a mountain lion on two occasions Tuesday, according to an alert from the Arlington Neighbors email list Wednesday. The sightings occurred at 4:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., the alert said. The resident saw the mountain lion in his backyard, said Denise Sangster, Arlington Neighbors moderator. It wasn't known whether it was the same animal or two different ones. El Cerrito police said Wednesday they had received word of the sightings from Sangster but had not heard from the witness. Mountain lions were reported in at least two other Bay Area cities Tuesday. One was seen in the backyard of a home in San Mateo Tuesday night, CBS SF reported. Another was chased up …
Friday, January 13, 2012
UC Berkeley police reported mountain lion sightings in the Berkeley Hills since December and issued advice on how reduce the risk of encountering a mountain lion and how to respond if you do meet one.
UC Berkeley police issued safety alerts this week following reports of a mountain lion seen at a campus housing complex Tuesday and of two mountain lions last month at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The alerts on Thursday and Wednesday, which can be found on the campus police Facebook page, reported an unverified sighting of a cougar just after 10 p.m. Tuesday on top of a dumpster at the Smyth-Fernwald apartment complex, which is located in the Berkeley hills near the top of Dwight Way northeast of the Clark Kerr campus. Last month, there was an unverified sighting of two mountain lions running along Lawrence Road toward Glaser Road at Berkeley lab, which lies in hilly terrain directly east of the main Cal campus, police said. …
Thursday, July 7, 2011
In the second local mountain lion report in the past week, an El Cerrito man informed Patch today that he and his wife encountered a mountain lion Saturday while hiking in Wildcat Canyon Regional Park on El Cerrito's eastern border.
An El Cerrito couple hiking in Wildcat Canyon Regional Park next to the city encountered a mountain lion drinking from a creek Saturday morning, Patch learned today, July 7. Julian Kaye said he and his wife Michelle were hiking with their dog on Havey Canyon Trail about 10 a.m. when he spotted the animal about 30 or 40 feet away. The animal looked up, stared, leapt up and — to the couple's relief — departed into the woods. Kaye and his wife departed out of the woods. The spot where they saw the cougar is about 6/10 of a mile from the El Cerrito city limit. The encounter came the day after a mountain lion attacked a deer inside the city limits, on Charles Street in the northern part of El Cerrito. "We were absolutely stunned, I can tell you…
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
In the wake of a mountain lion attack on a deer in El Cerrito, state Fish and Game officials said that while mountain lion attacks on humans are extremely rare, it's a good idea to discourage deer from hanging out in your neighborhood.
The recent mountain lion attack on a deer in El Cerrito — which raised alarm becauuse it happened in a residential neighborhood — reflects typical mountain lion behavior and does not indicate a special threat to humans, according to a California Department of Fish and Game spokesman. Where there are deer, there are mountain lions, and when deer go into a residential area, mountain lions will track them there, said Kyle Orr, public information officer with Fish and Game. “It’s not rare to have a mountain lion take a deer in a residential neighborhood,” he said. “It’s still a mountain lion being a mountain lion.” What is rare are mountain lion attacks on humans. Orr said there have been only 14 verified attacks by mountain lions on humans …
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Saturday, July 2, 2011
An injured deer was discovered early Friday morning on Charles Street in northern El Cerrito.
El Cerrito police issued a warning today to residents to be on the lookout after finding an injured deer Friday that had been attacked by a young mountain lion. Police responded to the 5800 block of Charles Street on Friday shortly after midnight after a neighbor called to report hearing the sound of a moaning animal, according to Corporal Gilbert Tang. Charles Street is located north of Barrett Avenue, in the northern part of the city. While wildlife experts say attacks on human are rare, the police notice recommends not leaving small children or pets unattended. It offers guidelines on how to respond to an encounter as well as a link to a Department of Fish and Game website about mountain lions. The department also has a Youtube video …
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
UC Berkeley police have issued a "safety alert" about mountain lion sightings in the hills above the above the Berkeley campus.
UC Berkeley police have issued a "safety alert" following several mountain lion sightings in the hills above the Berkeley campus. The alert was sent via email to the campus community late Wednesday, following the most recent sighting that morning of a cougar walking away from a building at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The notice included tips on how to respond in encounters with mountain lions and how to avoid them. Here is the alert from the campus police department: On Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at approximately 8:22 a.m., a mountain lion was sighted walking away from a building at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. In recent months several sightings of mountain lions have occurred in the hills above the Berkeley campus and…
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Laura McDevitt
2:38 pm on Thursday, April 19, 2012
Just spotted a small bobcat on Terrace, near Gelston on the vacant lot that is for sale (~6 pm on 4/18/12). This was after seeing 2 deer and 1 turkey on the immediate street above. If anyone has advise on how to report, let me know , I called police, which referred me to animal control, which referred me to fish and game (since I wasn't immediately in front of the animal at the time, sorry, I … more ›