A black-and-white night-vision security camera image shows a mountain lion walking across a driveway between two parked cars. The scene is viewed from above, with the vehicles positioned on either side and the animal illuminated in the center of the frame.
A mountain lion crosses the driveway of a home on Little Lake Road, about a mile from the town of Mendocino, Calif., as seen on a security camera at 3:30 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. The footage was captured after art director and animator Scott Bartholomew received an alert from his Google Nest camera. (Scott Bartholomew via Bay City News)

MENDOCINO CO., 12/14/25 — Art director and animator Scott Bartholomew was happy that he awakened early Thursday morning. He checked his phone at 5:30 a.m. and saw that he had an alert from his driveway Google Nest Cam.

“I would have missed it if I’d woken up later,” he said. “The alert shows up on my phone, but if you don’t save it, it self-deletes after a few hours.”

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