Puma & Bobcat Sightings Map

Adult bobcat 

seen via camera trap image

Uncollared female (I think) roaming around our property at 10:25pm

This mom and cub came through our yard at 7:00 Saturday night, then again at 2:00 Sunday morning. The cub isn’t visible on the second part, but another camera caught the cub’s glowing eyes about 10 feet away at the same time. I am logging as two separate sightings.

 

This mom and cub came through our yard at 7:00 Saturday night, then again at 2:00 Sunday morning. The cub isn’t visible on the second part, but another camera caught the cub’s glowing eyes about 10 feet away at the same time. I am logging as two separate sightings.

 

Spotted at approximately 7:30 pm a second before it disappeared 

My son and I encountered a mountain lion while we were hiking/walking the Crystal Springs Cross Country trail loop, above Hallmark Park in Belmont. I noticed it walking up a hill (right next to another part of the trail) maybe 150 feet from us then it stopped, saw us, turned facing us, and sat down while it watched us. I called 911. At a certain point it started coming toward us and we started yelling and waving our arms and it scampered away a little, then we kept screaming until it we couldn’t see it anymore. We last saw it going toward another part of the loop trail. When we finally saw the cops at the entrance, they were nonchalant, said they often get sightings from the neighborhood (these are usually at night or very early morning like 3am, from what I’ve seen!), they didn’t want to alarm anyone, and the lion was probably just hungry. (!) I was shocked, as the encounter was incredibly close, scary, and on the walking trail at 1pm, and it was coming toward us! Other people use this trail, and I’m sure it will be used tomorrow on Thanksgiving. Furthermore, there are NO mountain lion warning signs anywhere in this location or at the entrance to the trail. Every other open space park nearby has warning signs, including what to do if you encounter one. I think a sign needs to be put up there asap.

I have numerous mountain lion videos, all caught on Ring cameras.  I also have several bobcats on video. All of them are walking on my driveway. I think my driveway is a sort of game trail. Most of these videos are at night but I have a few that are daytime sightings as well.

The videos are too large to upload. I tried to upload a video but was told it was too large.

If you have another place to upload large videos, please let me know - as I said, I have a lot of these videos of both mountain lions and bobcats.

One video, but two separate sightings.

I am logging this as two sightings, though the same video shows both. Puma came through our yard at 6:30pm, then again at 4:15 the next morning.

One of our ranch owners sent in videos of a mama and two cubs that she has been seeing on her property around 6:30/7:00 am. 

Right in front of my house, walking done the street- early this AM, Friday Nov 18; at 25450 Bunker Hill Blvd, Hayward

Appears to be a healthy adult mountain lion; was in my backyard, jumped my backyard fence into my driveway, triggering the security camera video capture. If someone wants to email me, I can email you a photo. but I do not know how to add it in here. sorry. 

Address is approximate. I was ~ 70 ft distance. 

Warned by unusual activity of two ravens I was looking directly at the area where a large female with two young cubs emerged from  my lower pasture (forest) and crossed the backyard about 25-30’ from me as I sat in my hot tub. They didn’t seem to see me and sauntered past me seemingly on their way to the open space not far beyond. 

Later that day I found the remains of a fresh raccoon kill down in the forest. Out beyond the house about 80’- 90’ I also found the not fresh remains of a three point buck killed sometime before. 

There have been numerous reports of sightings over the years; despite having lived here for 34 years, it was the first sighting on my property that I know of, although I did hear a puma screaming as it crossed our pasture several years ago (5-6?).

Mountain lion walking past camera trap.

Puma seen crossing street.

Ran into a couple of bobcats. 

Our neighborhood group often shares pictures/videos of this bobcat.

The animal was resting in a meadow. Got up, stretched (so yes, we are sure it was a puma) and lie down again.