Puma & Bobcat Sightings Map
While many people are confident they've seen a puma, not all of these sightings are accurate. The map below includes both confirmed and unverified puma sightings in the larger San Francisco Bay region (and beyond) since 2004.
Over time, this will help us evaluate problem areas, movement barriers for wildlife, and potential for human-puma conflict.
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Sightings List
Sep 22, 2023: Bobcat Sighting
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Heading away from me (100 feet) down road behind my house.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.32300 N, 122.26000 W
Sep 19, 2023: Bobcat Sighting
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Bobcat sighted walking through our back garden
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.51478 N, 122.34148 W
Sep 18, 2023: Puma Sighting
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Sightings at least twice a week.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.09730 N, 121.77333 W
Sep 15, 2023: Bobcat Sighting
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Bobcat roaming the culdesac and front yards.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.81842 N, 121.96795 W
Sep 15, 2023: Puma Sighting
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Single mountain lion captured on my Browning trail camera
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.31932 N, 122.26318 W
Sep 13, 2023: Bobcat Sighting
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Just a quick 9:30pm visit to our yard.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.50927 N, 122.46882 W
Sep 12, 2023: Puma Sighting
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Mountain lion investigated our driveway and breezeway. Caught on security camera.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.89912 N, 122.13788 W
Sep 11, 2023: Puma Sighting
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In backyard
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.83516 N, 122.20463 W
Sep 10, 2023: Puma Sighting
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Behind the shop, 9/10/23, 10:47pm. The cat then walked down the side of the building and between the house and the shop and left down the west driveway.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.32300 N, 122.26000 W
Sep 9, 2023: Puma Sighting
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Saw a puma run away at this site and also saw multiple instances of scat
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.88273 N, 122.19390 W
Sep 9, 2023: Bobcat Sighting
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Saw the bobcat on the road outside my house.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 38.37471 N, 122.89367 W
Sep 8, 2023: Bobcat Sighting
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Behind the shop, 9/8/23, 10:47pm
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.32300 N, 122.26000 W
Sep 5, 2023: Puma Sighting
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6:13 am 9/5/23
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.80309 N, 122.19529 W
Sep 4, 2023: Puma Sighting
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Hiking back down the Huckleberry Reserve trail with a friend, at the same moment we both heard a low long growl from about 25 feet into the heavily wooded area. We both looked at each other and at the exact same moment said “Was that a growl?!” Searching through the map sightings, this is nearly IDENTICAL to the sighting reported 7/19/20 - same area, though we were on the lower trail.. about a half mile from the trail head.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.84236 N, 122.18996 W
Sep 4, 2023: Puma Sighting
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Puma at John Muir National Historic Site
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.97700 N, 122.13000 W
Sep 3, 2023: Bobcat Sighting
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Animal caught on security camera. It walked by side of house and looked into kitchen window. I didn't have a camera with me then. Size was larger than domestic cat. Spots all over. U shaped tail. Camera didn't catch spots or tail very well, so some people think it is a bobcat, but I think it was a young puma.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.51263 N, 122.46402 W
Sep 2, 2023: Puma Sighting
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Mountain lions are visiting us a lot - at least 2 different ones. This is our uncollared one.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 38.35881 N, 122.52431 W
Sep 1, 2023: Puma Sighting
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A very wet puma on a drizzly morning.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.50927 N, 122.46882 W
Aug 31, 2023: Bobcat Sighting
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Several clear paw prints seen along lower portion of Methuselah Trail in El Corte de Madera Preserve at 6:30pm
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.40027 N, 122.31933 W
Aug 30, 2023: Bobcat Sighting
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Looked to be a cub. Not sure if it was bobcat or puma.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.64224 N, 122.00850 W
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