Summer is ending with continued mild weather.  Forecasters predict a rainy fall and especially winter.

We'll start with the felids. After four months without seeing mountain lions, we had two visits this month, two weeks apart, from different
individuals I believe.  The first is slender, possibly young, perhaps female.  The one in the nighttime video clips seems stockier, possibly male.

We also saw bobcats. Here is a photo and video of a female with two kittens at the Adobe Creek Crossing in morning light.

And a night video of a bobcat with a single kit, taken 10 days earlier at a new mountaintop spring camera placed by docent Christian Naventi:

This new camera also captured a feral hog wallowing in mud, and a kestrel flying away, plus these videos of a wary coyote in daylight
and a great horned owl at night. This spring provides one of the last water sources on the upper mountain in late summer.

Deer were plentiful as usual. Here is a buck on the hillside forest trail and a group of females/juveniles at the Adobe creek crossing at dawn:

Rounding it out, we have a feral boar.  This appears to be the same individual we see at the same spot, but only about once per month.

And a rather elegant looking skunk in daylight.

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