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
Aug 24, 2014: Puma Sighting
Live Sighting
Unverified
Evening (6pm-12am)
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address 7940 La honda road, Ken Kesey's house. lion was trying to cross the road, i was driving back from the beach with full headlights on..caught sight of tail going into trees to right of the bridge leading into the driveway to the house. i pulled over pass the spot and watched the lion watching me from the creek/under the bridge, he was waiting for a clear path across the road and up the other side he went. what
Aug 23, 2014: Puma Sighting
Prey Carcass
Probable
Morning (6am-12pm)
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Deer head seen on ground on top of leaves while walking dog. In front of house on 3125 frye st, oakland, across from empty lot.
Aug 22, 2014: Puma Sighting
Camera Trap or Security Camera
Confirmed
Early Morning (12am-6am)
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My wildlife cam caught a puma - see photo.
Aug 21, 2014: Puma Sighting
Sighting Type Unknown
Unverified
Evening (6pm-12am)
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One large and two smaller mountain lions seen by Cervantes Road
Aug 16, 2014: Puma Sighting
Live Sighting
Unverified
Evening (6pm-12am)
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I saw two lions roaming on the Red tail loop trail. They were visible from the parking lot and saw them with my binoculars from 8:10pm to 8:20pm. the parking lot closes at 8:30pm.
Aug 12, 2014: Puma Sighting
Killed
Confirmed
Morning (6am-12pm)
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Hit car on drivers side. Car was traveling south on I280 between sand hill and page mill. Car going 65 mph. Puma running at full speed and coming from center meridian. Presumed dead. No visual confirmation. Appeared to be very large.
Jul 30, 2014: Puma Sighting
Camera Trap or Security Camera
Confirmed
Early Morning (12am-6am)
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This was a pretty big one!
Jul 23, 2014: Puma Sighting
Sighting Type Unknown
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The mountain lion was sighted on Telarana Way at the bend in the road, moving through the garden (near the road and the tall trees on the left when facing the house)
Jul 17, 2014: Puma Sighting
Sighting Type Unknown
Unverified
Evening (6pm-12am)
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young puma on our back porch looking in at us for a few seconds then turned and left. top of head maybe 2 feet high.
Jul 10, 2014: Puma Sighting
Sighting Type Unknown
Unverified
Morning (6am-12pm)
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It was a good walk, a long one. But we'd hit a bit of a conversational lull, always a bad sign.
"What if there is a lion living in there? I don't think that's going to work out. What would they do then?"
Jul 4, 2014: Puma Sighting
Prey Carcass
Probable
Morning (6am-12pm)
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Deer carcass found in the morning. No sighting of lion, afaik. No one heard the attack, afaik. Animal control removed carcass and living/uninjured young fawn.
Am curious whether some altert system could be established when collared lion enters inhabited area....We get SMS messages about all sorts of things. Why not this? Why do we have to wait for citizen-sightings, rather than collar/radio data?
Jul 2, 2014: Puma Sighting
Sighting Type Unknown
Unverified
Early Morning (12am-6am)
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Mountain Lion about medium size was walking across the street on the sidewalk on Maggiora Drive.
Jul 1, 2014: Puma Sighting
Killed
Confirmed
Morning (6am-12pm)
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Found dead on front doorstep of home on Croy Rd. About 3 years ago. Above date is not correct but I had to put something there.
Jun 23, 2014: Puma Sighting
Live Sighting
Confirmed
Morning (6am-12pm)
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The puma looked underweight, and look almost rabid-like.
Jun 21, 2014: Puma Sighting
Sighting Type Unknown
Unverified
Early Morning (12am-6am)
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I saw three mountain lions very clearly and believe I saw a fourth, perhaps the mother, running into the bush ahead of them. About 4' body length, 2 1/2'high, 2 1/2' big fat brown tail. Really healthy looking, all three. Awesome sight.
May 26, 2014: Puma Sighting
Live Sighting
Unverified
Morning (6am-12pm)
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I was running up the hill to the tower right outside the golf course and it ran across the trail about 30 feet in front of me, running away from me
May 23, 2014: Puma Sighting
Camera Trap or Security Camera
Confirmed
Afternoon (12pm-6pm)
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At a spring in Castle Rock State Park.
May 17, 2014: Puma Sighting
Camera Trap or Security Camera
Confirmed
Morning (6am-12pm)
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Mountain lion with gps collar on my neighbors wildlife camera. Skyline Blvd at Gist Road, Los Gatos, California the video is on my Facebook page Kim CharbonneauOwens
Apr 20, 2014: Puma Sighting
Live Sighting
Unverified
Afternoon (12pm-6pm)
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The date of this sighting is approximately a month after finding the deer kill by Kennedy Grove, so the date is an approximation. I suspect it's the same cat, and probably the same as I saw on 12/10/2014. I was somewhere off the Sobrante Ridge Trail on some side trail when I spotted something in a clearing on the opposite hill (on the other side of Castro Ranch Road). It took me a minute to realize it wasn't a deer; they often graze in the ranch field just downhill from where I saw this cat.
Apr 8, 2014: Puma Sighting
Live Sighting
Unverified
Afternoon (12pm-6pm)
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While out walking on the trail east of CSUEB campus, I spotted what looked like a deer at first: a large, tawny-colored animal on the grassy hill. I noticed it was low to the ground and had the movements of a cat. Then I saw its tail and recognized that it was a mountain lion. It was walking West and didn't appear to see me.