A Plano alleyway camera is the latest place to see a mountain lion that's believed to be the same one spotted in several North Texas cities."I started looking at the actual video and it had a long tail.

Mountain lion sightings are rare in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to state wildlife officials, but the last few weeks seem to challenge that notion. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department confirmed the third mountain lion sighting in North Texas in less than a month — this time in Collin County.

The City of Plano said in a Facebook post that biologists with the TPWD confirmed security camera footage of a mountain lion in Plano on Friday, November 8. Before that, TPWD confirmed mountain lion sightings in Lake Dallas on October 27 and Frisco on November 1.

The mountain lion was considered a public threat and had activated a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents.

La Quinta residents are concerned about mountain lions in their backyards after one was spotted late last week. The sighting happened in the early hours of Friday morning in the La Quinta Fairways neighborhood,

Another mountain lion has been spotted in North Texas, this time walking down the alley of a Plano neighborhood.