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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Jul 27, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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Backyard sighting, walking along my back wall.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.28416 N, 121.88782 W
Jul 27, 2025: Puma Sighting
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Collared and uncollared cats in separate images
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.32172 N, 122.27230 W
Jul 27, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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Seen by two home security cameras in the Piedmont Pines neighborhood twice within two weeks in July and August 2025
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.81700 N, 122.20214 W
Jul 25, 2025: Puma Sighting
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I hadn’t seen ever such a large cat except in the Zoo. He looked like a big lion cub, 1 color coat, not a very long tail, but a thick tail. He was crossing the street, I was on my bike back from Farmers Market.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 36.58583 N, 121.89377 W
Jul 23, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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Bobcat was busy hunting and was at first ignoring us. Looking for small prey.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.87681 N, 122.11370 W
Jul 22, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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Parent Bobcat male or female with two smaller bobcat kittens
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.78400 N, 121.91948 W
Jul 21, 2025: Puma Sighting
Killed
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Mountain lion hit by car along Hwy 1. No evident wound or trauma. Guessing 24-48 hours since time of death.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.10733 N, 122.29217 W
Jul 20, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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Two bobcats, one larger one smaller, seen on security camera at 6:15 am showing creek next to house. After seeing them, I noticed that a squirrel had just been eaten in our front yard and I assume it was the bobcats which ate it.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.89546 N, 122.14894 W
Jul 20, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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One bobcat spotted on the trail just above the parking lot at Mitchell Canyon.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.92153 N, 121.94059 W
Jul 19, 2025: Puma Sighting
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Hiking on Sycamore near the bottom of the elevation and saw a brown flash on the trail ahead to a diagonal about 50-100 feet. The cougar stepped forward about 5 feet and paused to look at us, we got a good look at the tail and animal. It paused for about 5-10 seconds before walking in the opposite direction away from us.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.79675 N, 122.05787 W
Jul 18, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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I was jogging up the canyon road and the cat was just off to my left up the embankment. Both paused to check eachother out, then carried on with our days. Wonderful encounter! Also saw turkeys and deer in the area, in the direction the cat was headed.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.57047 N, 121.93446 W
Jul 17, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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Comes to my bird feeder often.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.88000 N, 122.13000 W
Jul 15, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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The bobcat was crossing Route 92.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.49005 N, 122.37079 W
Jul 15, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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Was walking on the Nimitz Way for a while, including towards me slowly. But was not threatening. Then went down the hill eastward.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.90672 N, 122.24748 W
Jul 13, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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Small bobcat crossed the Nimitz trail in front of me and then sat in the trees uphill from the trail for a few minutes.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.90878 N, 122.24680 W
Jul 13, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
Prey Carcass
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A domestic cat carcass was found that appeared to be a possible puma prey. When I looked up what parts of a cat a mountain lion will eat, the description fit accurately to the carcass that was found.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.74100 N, 121.94000 W
Jul 9, 2025: Puma Sighting
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There has been a family of foxes (1 mama, 2 babies) under our deck and in and around our yard since June. 5 (when we first saw the babies - I suspect they were born under the deck about a month before that??). Last night at 11:15pm I heard an awful sound and saw a mountail lion get one of the baby foxes. The mountain lion ran away when it saw me (I was inside). The baby fox was badly mamed and struggled on our deck before pulling itself off the deck into it's den under the deck. The mountail lion then returned and I watched it as it stalked the site. I never saw it retrieve the injured baby from under the deck. Mama fox returned about 30 minutes later and called out and prowled the area for about 3 hours - I am assuming trying to locate the other baby? I have lived in Marin since 1977 and have never seen a mountain lion - not even in open space. Absolutely stunned to see it in my fenced yard in Terra Linda.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 38.01161 N, 122.54977 W
Jul 8, 2025: Puma Sighting
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Two mountain lions walked up our driveway around 8:00 pm (still light out). One dashed into the woods by the creek, the other continued to follow the driveway until it ended and it headed into the woods, up the hill.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 37.16900 N, 122.17000 W
Jul 7, 2025: Bobcat Sighting
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I was looking outside my window and there was a bobcat in the open space.
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 38.09398 N, 122.60950 W
Jul 7, 2025: Puma Sighting
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Big brown color with a real long tale that hooked at the top
Lat / Lon: Latitude and Longitude 0.00000 N, 0.00000 E
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