This actually happened Sunday around 6:00pm on Airport Rd in SW OKC.
If any of you are familiar with the area, there is a large wooded area south of Airport Rd and East of Meridian. As Airport Rd merges into Will Rogers Expressway South Bound, the wooded area opens up to a large field. You can often see a rather herd of whitetails in the early evenings in this area.
Anyway, in the portion that is wooded, as I was driving by Sunday evening, I saw what I first though was a bedded down deer. As I looked I saw it moving and the movement was not like a deer. From where I was, it appeared to move more like a big cat. I was going to try to stop, but traffic was pretty busy and I would have needed to back up along the shoulder. I dismissed it as just a trick of perspective, whatever. Is it plausible that this was a mountain lion?
If any of you are familiar with the area, there is a large wooded area south of Airport Rd and East of Meridian. As Airport Rd merges into Will Rogers Expressway South Bound, the wooded area opens up to a large field. You can often see a rather herd of whitetails in the early evenings in this area.
Anyway, in the portion that is wooded, as I was driving by Sunday evening, I saw what I first though was a bedded down deer. As I looked I saw it moving and the movement was not like a deer. From where I was, it appeared to move more like a big cat. I was going to try to stop, but traffic was pretty busy and I would have needed to back up along the shoulder. I dismissed it as just a trick of perspective, whatever. Is it plausible that this was a mountain lion?
