I live in an urban area in So Cal near the foothills. Mind, this is not the San Gabriels, which is more chaparral, this is more high desert. We have some open

I live in an urban area in So Cal near the foothills. Mind, this is not the San Gabriels, which is more chaparral, this is more high desert. We have some open fields nearby, but we're less than 5 miles from the actual hills themselves. Less than a month ago we had a bobcat "in" our backyard. By that, I mean we had her running along the top of our cinder block wall. What we actually saw was her litter of kittens. We just saw them running back and forth on the top, we did not see the mother. We saw her later in the afternoon as she came back to round them up. It was a tense few minutes as the mother waited on the ground for her kittens who were hesitant to drop down from the wall (it's a 6 foot wall). They were clinging to the neighbors gate. We were more worried they'd fall on the inside of the gate into their backyard. They're not home, and the gates are locked. It would have been interesting to see how she would have got them out of there. But all was well, they dropped on the outside of the gate, and they scurried off. A teachable moment for the children, no doubt. We've also had coyote's on this wall. There's something inherently creepy about being stared at by a wild animal. We have to assume that they live in one of the nearby fields. There's a nice 10 acre field that's overgrown with deep grass. Most of the fields have much less cover. But still curious what brought her and her kittens to our house.