Re: Wild animal attacks in S.B. county

I posted on the board once with a mountain lion sighting on the bowen ranch trail. A guy was watching, but I didn't really stick around nor think it wise. The drought seems to be provoking strange behaviors however, I wonder if it is so in the high desert. The other day in LA, at 12:30 in the afternoon, with lots of people around, I was hiking with my wife and dog on a road that leads up into the hills a block north of my home. This is Hollywood. Middle of the day. Suddenly saw two big coyotes coming down the ridge toward the road. My wife held the dog back and waited for me, but I went on ahead to where the coyotes were descending. As I neared, the bigger one jumped up in the air and came nose first down into the sand - out he came with a mole and started crunching away. A family came along the road at that point with a little boy - I pointed out the coyote just a few feet above us off the road, chomping away, and they grabbed their little one. I've seen coyotes before, and hear them often - but never have seen them hunting in the middle of the day in a neighborhood so close to houses.