Bobcat reportedly spotted at Burbank golf course

By Mark Kellam

Sept. 17, 2011 12 AM PT

A bobcat was spotted near DeBell Golf Club in Burbank Saturday morning near the intersection of Grinnell and Sunset Canyon drives, police said.

The cat was seen around 10 a.m. in a wash area near a smaller course called the “Nine Hole, Par 3,” which is part of DeBell, said Burbank Police Lt. D. Yadon.

The smaller course is separate from DeBell physically, the two courses divided by a catch basin. The bobcat was in the wash that runs from the basin, Yadon said.

Officers were dispatched, but no bobcat was found, he added.

A 20- to 30-pound bobcat was spotted in Brand Park in Glendale on Friday, but it hopped a fence and went back into the hillside before animal control and police officers arrived at the scene.

Several mountain lion sightings have also been reported in the hillside neighborhoods of Burbank in recent months.

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Mark Kellam

Mark Kellam was city editor of the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader. He joined Times Community News in July 2011 as the business-politics reporter and was promoted to city editor in January 2013. Previously, he was an editor at the Los Angeles Daily News and managing editor at Champion Newspapers in Chino, Calif. Prior to that, he was an editor at Amos Suburban Newspapers in Dayton, Ohio, for several years. Kellam holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University.