My neighbor captured video footage of a mountain lion roaming through our Samarkand neighborhood on Friday morning, January 30.
This took place around 7:00 a.m. on Romaine Drive and other neighbors did not report any other sightings around this time.
Keep your pets inside and keep an eye out, this is a densely populated area and lions have been seen here from time to time.
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Beautiful animal.
Wow! Here kittty kitty…
Makes my heart glad that we’ve come to accept that wild animals may visit our neighborhoods and there’s no rush to hunt down and kill these occasional “tourists”.
The visits are largely a result of habitat destruction.
What ‘habitat’ was destroyed that makes this MOUNTAIN LION forced to feed in the Samarkand neighborhood? Or could it be that it’s far easier to predate on domestic cats and small dogs?
Clueless, as is your wont.
ZIPS – my effing Lord….. do you even live in SB? Have you never seen houses outside of downtown? You can’t seriously be from here.
I’m third generation local. How about you?
ZIPS – Born and raised, but who cares? So, go ask your grandparents about the expansion of SB, especially the Mission Canyon area.
Now, since you’re so “local” (poser), riddle me this. What unique natural feature connects the Samarkand area with the more “urban” areas just less than 2 miles away?
Go on, Mr./Mrs. Santa Barbara, show us your wealth of knowledge about the area!
Should be an easy one for a local . .. Madly searching Google? likely.
KAPOSER – unless it was a mountain lion, it has nothing to do with this article or any of these comments.
Go find something to do and stop trolling with your weird wannabe local crap.
interesting opinion. What development in the last 20-25 years has caused the habitat destruction you mention? Any opinion on the population explosion of mountain lions since California outlawing the hunting of them?
You are suggesting that there is an overpopulation of mountain lions in California which is patently false. But you typically BS your way through any post with zero knowledge of the subject matter.
What Development in the last 20-25 years has caused habitat destruction? Are you really that unable to do a bit of research on basic subject matter and then credit the source?
From the Wildlife Society:
“Mountain lion habitat destruction is primarily driven by human encroachment, which causes severe habitat fragmentation, isolating populations and restricting movement. Rapid urban expansion, road construction, agricultural development, and increased frequency of wildfires are the main causes, reducing suitable territory for these wide-ranging, solitary predators. ‘
SAIL – are you really asking this? ALL development outside of already existing city boundaries has destroyed wildlife habitats, including mountain lions. Also, water is wet and sometimes salty.
Go ahead and name the developments that are close enough to this sighting to be considered habitat destruction. Turning Vons into a Bristol Farms doesn’t count.
Low IQ post of the day. You get an atta boy and a participation trophy.
I don’t know if even a participation trophy is warranted here. Someone didn’t even show up for the game lol!
SAIL – dear Lord. Read my comment. It’s very short. Now, read it again. Once more, out loud. And now one last time.
Vons to Bristol Farms is not a “development” nor is it “outside of already existing city boundaries.”
Go ahead and read it one last time for good measure.
As for naming specific developments that HAVE encroached on mountain lion habitat, I don’t know the actual names of the projects and neither do you. Instead, I’ll tell you ONCE AGAIN to read my comment AGAIN.
Think (I know it’s hard) the Riviera, Mission Canyon, pretty much all of Montecito, anything on the mountain side of Foothill and Cathedral Oaks… you know, where nature is. FCS.