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.
Have you seen a puma or bobcat in your neighborhood?
Sightings List
Nov 2, 2021: Puma Sighting
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Large tagged mountain lion, laying down with 1 of 2 ewes killed, spotted at 8:25am. Ewes were still warm.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 38.37820 N, 122.53314 W
Nov 2, 2021: Puma Sighting
Camera Trap or Security Camera
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Mountain lion (no tracking collar) walking past camera trap.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.12652 N, 122.01238 W
Nov 2, 2021: Puma Sighting
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Mountain lion (no tracking collar) walking past camera trap.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.12645 N, 122.01233 W
Nov 2, 2021: Puma Sighting
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Mountain lion in backyard early morning. Exact time unknown.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.58907 N, 122.47264 W
Oct 29, 2021: Puma Sighting
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Photo is a screen grab from a trail cam video. The location is at the entrance of my driveway in Pescadero.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.23582 N, 122.34358 W
Oct 28, 2021: Puma Sighting
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Just north of the junction of two trails: Chumash and Rocky Peak. There's a small hill above the Rocky Peak trail where while looking for my lost ball cap I scanned with my headlamp this hill and saw two eyes highlighted by my light. Moving E I thought it might be a bob cat but as I adjusted my headlamp brighter while moving closer the perched cat than changed position and headed NE into the brush. At this point that huge tail relative to his body difinitively provided positive ID on what I saw: Juvenile ML.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 34.30610 N, 118.64952 W
Oct 27, 2021: Puma Sighting
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Saw cub run up the road. It sat on the hillside for a while while I watched it
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.29712 N, 122.10950 W
Oct 22, 2021: Puma Sighting
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Walked through my campsite. Early morning. I am absolutely sure it was a cougar.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 36.65045 N, 121.81284 W
Oct 22, 2021: Bobcat Sighting
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This was the second sighting within a few days in our back yard. The previous sighting happened at 5pm. I have video, if you'd like it.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.60938 N, 122.47895 W
Oct 20, 2021: Puma Sighting
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Camera trap, 2nd sighting this year in our yard
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.34985 N, 122.12543 W
Oct 20, 2021: Puma Sighting
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Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.50500 N, 122.28000 W
Oct 17, 2021: Puma Sighting
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On a trail run, spotted an adult in the middle of Woods RD Trail (less than a mile heading away from the woods road entrance parking lot). It was about 60 yards away from me. I stopped, put my arms out to "get big" and then called for the cat to move. After about a minute or so of looking at me without moving, it darted into the woods.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.17410 N, 121.86005 W
Oct 14, 2021: Puma Sighting
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I noticed an animal from far away while walking my dog and talking on the phone. After eyeing us for several moments this guy moved like a cat. Def bigger than my 70 lb dog. I went to the safety of my car and drove up the road to try to get a better shot but it had retreated.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.70983 N, 122.10438 W
Oct 14, 2021: Bobcat Sighting
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Caught on arlo camera system 3x over 2 weeks (about every 3-4 days) hunting (and capturing) rodents. Very healthy looking cats. I will submit a still although I do have moving pix. 814 Marin Drive 94941
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.87544 N, 122.54242 W
Oct 13, 2021: Puma Sighting
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The mountain lion was half behind a tree, right next to my neighbors fence and I pointed it out to my neighbor, thinking it was a Coyote. It came out from behind tree and was a Mountain lion! Big, tan, lanky and casually sauntered away.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.88416 N, 122.12370 W
Oct 12, 2021: Puma Sighting
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Had a face to face encounter. The lion was eating its prey on be the Cal Trans retaining wall cut . The lion was on the secondary embankment between the highway and the bay.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 38.32682 N, 123.04154 W
Oct 9, 2021: Puma Sighting
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We found this on our security camera in our backyard at 4 AM on October 9. Large mountain lion. Video available.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.64646 N, 122.47717 W
Oct 6, 2021: Puma Sighting
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Mountain Lion came onto our backyard lawn, gave itself a bath, then left. Same one that came to the same spot on 9/27/2021. I have video I can share
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.63512 N, 122.48535 W
Oct 6, 2021: Puma Sighting
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Found a dead deer by a trail we walk almost daily. Deer was dead but mostly intact, Cause of death didn't seem to be predation. Setup the critter cam and collected back 3 days later.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.10408 N, 121.91528 W
Oct 4, 2021: Bobcat Sighting
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Bobcat seen walking thru our backyard.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.58513 N, 122.48352 W
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