I just don't want to see Wallace & company get eaten while birding  
Rock Creek Park...


This is from NBC Washington web site:
Possible Mountain Lion Sighting in D.C.

Wildlife officers searching for the creature

Some believe a mountain lion may be lurking in northwest Washington.
One neighbor described the creature as larger and wider than a deer,  
with the long tail of a cat.

Another woman said she was walking her dog in McLean Gardens at the  
edge of Glover Park when she spotted the large cat last week.  The  
cat, which she believes is a mountain lion, ran off into some nearby  
woods.

Someone else reported seeing the cat last February.

The latest sighting happened Wednesday afternoon, according to a News4  
viewer who says she spotted the animal near the Beltway exit to  
Connecticut Avenue.

They all agree it looks like a mountain lion.

Animal control officers say they are taking the reports seriously.   
While they haven't confirmed it is a mountain lion, they say it could  
very well be one.

A spokesperson for the Washington Humane Society said someone may have  
been keeping the cat as a pet and then released it once they couldn't  
take  care of it anymore.

And a comment someone wrote after the article read:  "Hubby heard "big  
cat" (mountain lion, bob cat, etc) screams (sounds like a woman  
screaming but definitely animal) in the woods along Capital Crescent  
Trail near Mass Ave around 5:30 am a week or so ago."

Cheers,

Steve Hersey

Nice and safe in Alexandria, VA



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