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: Puma Sighting
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I opened my front door around 6:45 am, and saw a mountain lion on my driveway, ~10 feet away, inside my fenced front yard. Entire yard is fenced, but fence is only about 4 ft high.
When I opened the door, it turned to look at me quickly, then trotted away, presumably exiting over the fence. I did not step outside to see where it went.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.21600 N, 121.98000 W
Sep 21, 2023: Bobcat Sighting
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Behind my backyard fence near the water at 281 Stone Valley Way, Alamo CA 94507
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.85020 N, 122.03218 W
Sep 21, 2023: Bobcat Sighting
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regular visitor for a month now
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.32192 N, 122.27221 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 14, 2023: Puma Sighting
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My boyfriend and his dog were outside by our barn and hear a sound like a injured puppy. We’d been hearing the strange noise for a few days always at dusk and in the night. My boyfriend went instantly to his dog, a border collie Australian shepherd mix, whom was taking a leek on the fence. As my boyfriend got to his dog and grabbed his harness he shined his light to the side of the barn and a mountain lion was striding towards them. He started walking to the house quickly pulling his dog along the way by it’s harness. The mountain lion just followed them walking at the same pace.
He got inside and woke me up and I could hear it making weird noises outside for about 45 minutes. The next morning we went out and sure enuf there were big ol’ prints, mountain lion for sure.
I’ve lived in this area for 31 year and have seen many mountain lions, last year alone we saw 5 lions and 3 bobcats, but where we had been living we would hear them almost every night
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.36235 N, 119.60405 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: 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 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 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 6, 2023: Bobcat Sighting
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again
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.32192 N, 122.27221 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 5, 2023: Puma Sighting
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Mountain Lion sighting on the coyote creek trail. I biking south on the trail and was close to the creek crossing just before the Bailey Ave overpass. This one looked like a juvenile.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.21372 N, 121.72972 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
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