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
Sep 20, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Mom and cub and they are hungry! There is that a long enough description?
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.13091 N, 122.11320 W
Sep 20, 2020: Puma Sighting
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animal walked down the slope of my property and turned down the road when it heard me outside. Size of a large bobcat with full tale. 100% certain. Lots of prey in the area (deer, turkeys). There may have been a kill at the back of the property a few weeks ago. Have a recording of something screaming in the night (4am) and the following few days the stench of a carcass + 4 large turkey vultures.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.84224 N, 122.20977 W
Sep 20, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Big cat caught on trail cam on Thomas Ranch early in the morning Sept 20. Mountain lion thought to be male.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.75980 N, 122.01040 W
Sep 20, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Caught on security camera
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.49806 N, 122.27804 W
Sep 19, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Pedro Mountain Trail. Young mountain lion with dark spots on back, long tail, dark brown tip on tail, lean, sat on trail and looked at me, upon a runner walked up the hill slowly
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.58095 N, 122.49539 W
Sep 19, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Juvenile crossing horse pasture possibly hunting gophers or rabbits in the area. Not a bobcat but we do have a pair of those on the property that are large - almost the same size as this very small lion but first time we have seen a lion. Did not look in good condition (underweight)
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.48331 N, 122.43565 W
Sep 18, 2020: Puma Sighting
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On security cameras near house and also several months ago on trail cams in woods.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.42509 N, 122.23796 W
Sep 13, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Puma crashed through roof of my chicken coop, killed a few birds then let itself out
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.29739 N, 122.10454 W
Sep 12, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Our back entrance camera picked up the mountain lion.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.52356 N, 122.31112 W
Sep 12, 2020: Puma Sighting
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I saw a large.lion walk down the sidewk across the street from my house at 1 in the morning. It was walking purposefully, but in no particular hurry. It pauses once it reached the darker area in the neighbors yard and then i lost site of it
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.61009 N, 122.47321 W
Sep 12, 2020: Puma Sighting
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very large puma,(body was about 6ft + 3ft tail) adult for sure coming down the hill crossing calming the road in front of our car... never looked at us.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.36769 N, 122.14405 W
Sep 11, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Small Fresh dead seal on beach, organs & blood still visible, LARGE fresh cat tracks surrounding carcass and going North. Looks like we surprised the animal and it left in a hurry.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.82619 N, 122.53417 W
Sep 11, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Walking with a friend at Quarry Lakes in Fremont on the path parallel with the BART tracks when we first thought we saw a dog, then realized it looked like a cat - a big cat. Got this video but didn't want to get closer.**staff received full video via email but can't confirm species identity**
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.56918 N, 121.99233 W
Sep 10, 2020: Puma Sighting
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At least twice a month this cat walks through our property. Usually very early morning, but recently the time has become closer to our waking hours which worries me as we have two dogs who we let out in the yard near the 6:00 am time frame. The latest videos (3 from our different blink cameras) show this past week's visit at 6:13 am which was right after our dogs came in from their morning wake up routine. Scary.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.20997 N, 121.97311 W
Sep 10, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Our security camera captured a large cat walking along our driveway at 10:35pm. Deer spotted in our pasture just minutes later.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.32906 N, 122.20824 W
Sep 10, 2020: Puma Sighting
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*sighting emailed to staff
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.43539 N, 122.32304 W
Sep 9, 2020: Puma Sighting
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My headlamp caught bright reflection of a pair of eyes ! 3 feet off the ground, and I could tell by the distance between the eyes that it was an animal of considerable size. The animal did not bolt, as deer would do, when I shouted at my husband to stop and back away. It was already dark. The next day, fresh fur-logged scat, over 1" in diameter was found, about 30 feet away from the sighting spot. I didn't actually see the animal. Didn't have my phone with me to grab a pic of the scat. When I returned with a ruler and camera, a neighbor must have already cleaned the scat away (on pavement). From pics of scat, it was not coyote scat. Fur in the scat was the type on deer.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.84044 N, 122.19183 W
Sep 9, 2020: Puma Sighting
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MOUNTAIN LION encounter at Quail Hollow in Felton. Went on the trail by the ranch today at Quail Hallow (the flat little loop where the turkeys hang out) and a giant cat roared and jumped down from a tree maybe 20ft from where our little group was. The tree shook, the ground thumped, the sound was a roar like the lion in the opening credits of a paramount movie...scariest moment of my life. We yelled, I dug through my pack for my taser I threw in at the last moment and we yelled to our children to stop running. It must've come down to that location because of the fires. Not all of those turkeys will make it tonight. I told a lady on the ranch who looked like she lived there, she was tending to horses there. It was so close. It may have been hunting or we startled it sleeping in the tree and it jumped down. It looked like it was dusk because of the orange sky.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.08367 N, 122.06015 W
Sep 8, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Sauntering up the road. Probably went down to the creek for water. It's been 110 degrees for 3 days. She was so quiet!
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 38.34520 N, 122.51268 W
Sep 7, 2020: Puma Sighting
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Captured by front door camera.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.49626 N, 122.28015 W
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