VIDEO: Mountain Lion Quietly Watches Kids Ride Bikes In Pacifica

PACIFICA, CA—Several kids recently riding their bicycles in their Pacifica neighborhood had no idea they were being closely watched by a mountain lion — but to their surprise, they were.

Timothy Kerrisk captured the whole thing on camera and posted the video to YouTube. According to Kerrisk, he happened to notice the mountain lion sitting in front of his house carefully observing the children play in the street.

Without hesitation, Kerrisk told KRON-TV he began yelling for the children to run to safety.

“I started yelling at the kids, ‘Get inside! Get inside! Get inside!’” Kerrisk said.

Kerrisk said he was concerned for the the kids' well-being and reacted on pure adrenaline. After he began warning the children to leave, the mountain lion decided it was time to leave, too.

VIDEO: Mountain Lion watches kids in Pacifica neighborhood

The Bay Area Puma Project told NBC Bay Area that it has actually been tracking the mountain lion and called it a "people observer."

According to the organization, although many animals have been forced out of their usual habitats by recent wildfires, residents shouldn't panic.

"Residents should expect to see activity from this cat here and there, but there’s nothing abnormal or scary or threatening about its behavior thus far," Zara McDonald with the Puma Project told the TV station.

This is not the first time a mountain lion has been spotted outside of a Pacifica home. Last month, a man's surveillance camera captured on video a mountain lion pacing around the steps of his Fairmont neighborhood home before hopping over a fence and disappearing.

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