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• INTRODUCTION
• VIDEO BY ALICE
• SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
• VIDEO CREDITS
• CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

Dear Ones,

This video has surprising Songbird intel about the diet of Mountain Lions at Paramount Ranch. I found out later that the Songbirds may not distinguish between Mountain Lions and Bobcats, and that in this instance they may be referring to Bobcats. Go figure!

There is a Summary beneath the video …

VIDEO BY ALICE

youtube link: https://youtu.be/7NWiSbgKJao ..

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

“The Mountain Lions (or Is It Bobcats?) Are Eating Snakes?”
By Alice B. Clagett

[IF YOU TURN YOUR AUDIO TO HIGH you can hear the Birds talking.]

Oh, I just heard the most incredible thing from the amassing young Mountain Lions over there. [Could this be Bobcats, I wonder?]

I said, “What are you eating?”
They said, “Rabbits and Snakes and things like that.” And I said, “You eat Snakes?”
And they said, “Yes.” I said, “How do you do that?”

They said  … I know you’re not going to believe this. I find it relatively unbelievable, too … they said, “We pick up a rock and throw it at them.”

I said, “How do you pick up a rock?” And they cast me a clairvoyant image … as they’re all too good at doing … showing how they had a rock, a sizable rock, in their mouth. ‘

And I guess they’re just going to throw that rock at the …
[Alice to Songbird:] is it a Rattlesnake?
[Hummingbird to Alice: It’s a Gopher Snake.]

[Songbird to Alice: Yep! It’s a GO-pher Snake and not a RAT-TLE-snake.]

Alice to Readers: They go for Snakes that are not poisonous.
[Alice to Mountain Lions:] “Do you ever kill it?”
Alice to Readers: No, they don’t. And now it’s beginning to sound more interesting and more possible.
[Hummingbird to Alice: I get that too.]

VIDEO CREDITS

“The Mountain Lions (or Is It Bobcats?) Are Eating Snakes?”
By Alice B. Clagett

Filmed on 3 June 2026 and produced on 15 July 2026
Location: Paramount Ranch, Santa Monica Mountains, CA

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By Alice B. Clagett

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CONCLUSION

God bless you all,
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days.

In love, Light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Io lux et pax nobiscum.
Joy, light and peace be with us!
— Alice B. Clagett

“Dominus illuminatio mea et salus mea; quem timebo?”
The Lord is my Light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?

Filmed on 3 June 2026 and published on 16 July 2026

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interspecies communication, birds, Songbirds, Hummingbirds, mammals, Mountain Lions, Bobcats, reptiles, snakes, gopher snakes, rattlesnakes,