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
Dec 4, 2020: Puma Sighting
Prey Carcass
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walking west to east, it crossed the creek trail and went down into the reeds at the edge of the perc pond. never spotted again, but about 15 min later it could be heard as it attacked and killed at duck or coot.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.25712 N, 121.86891 W
Dec 3, 2020: Puma Sighting
Camera Trap or Security Camera
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Front yard of my home, after my goats! In the far shadow beyond the goat
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.68819 N, 122.05982 W
Dec 3, 2020: Puma Sighting
Camera Trap or Security Camera
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On my steps after chasing the goats in the front yard
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.68824 N, 122.06005 W
Dec 3, 2020: Puma Sighting
Live Sighting
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Saw puma on trail. It walked in the brush once it saw me.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.52515 N, 122.46616 W
Dec 1, 2020: Puma Sighting
Sighting Type Unknown
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Large tan cat roaming the hillside mid day. Walked like a mountain lion, but pointy ears and hard to see tail
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.40492 N, 122.41417 W
Nov 30, 2020: Puma Sighting
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This was in our back yard.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.31595 N, 122.29121 W
Nov 30, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Walking around Bret Harte Middle School in Hayward
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.66661 N, 122.07091 W
Nov 29, 2020: Puma Sighting
Live Sighting
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Pleasanton Ridge, just south of the Mariposa/Sinbad trail intersection. Thought it was a coyote because of size, but walked like a cat. Looked all tan, no obvious darker markings like a bobcat, but photos don't show well. Watched it walk a few steps across the hillside then sit down and watch us. Must zoom in on photo to see-just left of center of image.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.66056 N, 121.94890 W
Nov 28, 2020: Puma Sighting
Prey Carcass
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Dead goat. Fish and Game is aware
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 36.98735 N, 121.97166 W
Nov 27, 2020: Puma Sighting
Live Sighting
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We were on a hike near Lake Chabot and I first noticed some deer in a field on a hill a couple hundred yards away. Then I looked up the hill a bit and saw a cougar slowly stalking the deer.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.72009 N, 122.09683 W
Nov 25, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Ring video emailed to staff from resident of La Selva beach.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 36.93581 N, 121.86380 W
Nov 24, 2020: Bobcat Sighting
Sighting Type Unknown
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Seen in driveway, eying our dog in the window
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 35.26150 N, 82.45970 W
Nov 24, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Rign caught a mountain lion near our gate last night. We are on the mountain side of La Selva Beach near the Mar Monte exit.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 36.94162 N, 121.86191 W
Nov 24, 2020: Puma Sighting
Killed
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Mountain lion was deceased on the left side of I-280 N between Edgewood Road exit and 92 intersection. It was later brought to PHS SPCA by Caltrans to be picked up by CA Fish & Wildlife.
**staff note: Sedef works for the Peninsula Humane Society and is a trusted source**
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.49697 N, 122.31295 W
Nov 23, 2020: Puma Sighting
Live Sighting
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Saw large animal trailing a herd of deer. Hard to confirm in the dark but had size and movement similar to mountain lion
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 38.87063 N, 123.11092 W
Nov 22, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Mountain lion in driveway 9:50pm.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.39823 N, 122.23330 W
Nov 22, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Large mountain lion with long tail. Seen 10 feet from my backyard fence. Fence is open wire. It was stalking a deer. When it saw me and my dog through the fence it walked off into the bushes.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.69042 N, 122.05725 W
Nov 21, 2020: Puma Sighting
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My daughter and I were about to cross the railroad tracks and a massive wild cat ran across the railroad tracks and into the wooded area near the corner of Alpine Road and Two Notch Rd. It had a very large stomach, very long legs, and we both thought it's tail looked quite short. It was unmistakable, too large to be a coyote, which we also see in that area occasionally. Sesquicentennial State Park is about 1 mile directly North, the direction it was running when we saw it.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 34.08474 N, 80.93413 W
Nov 21, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Collared cat caught on ring doorbell
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 38.32739 N, 122.49185 W
Nov 20, 2020: Bobcat Sighting
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Momma and 3 cubs. Have more pictures and video.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.85552 N, 121.93083 W
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