Puma & Bobcat Sightings Map

There are a pair of wild rabbits that visit an unfenced backyard and usually the bobcat visits in the evenings, but the last few weeks, it has been seeing it during the day. From the video it appears to be a female

Puma on critter cam

A large Mountain Lion was observed running across the dirt road right in front of my vehicle as I was leaving Ruck A Chucky campgrounds on the middle fork of the American River.

I believe this was a mother with a kitten (a few months old ). It was dark and I didn’t get a good view of the larger one (assumption the mother). It was the kitten who I actually saw in clear view as it leaped out of some plants as if pouncing (either hunting or playing?). I saw this from our window in the house above and across the street, because immediately before I had been alerted by a neighbors security light flashing on in the vicinity the kitten had come from. As I followed the light and movement they leaped from the low vegetation and pounced then ran forward out of the light. I happened to be up and searching for my kitty who had escaped the night before, so my instinct was to run down there for some reason without thinking as fast as I could. But when I got there I saw two pairs of eyes looking at me from the dark corner where the kitten had run to. The second pair of eyes was from a much larger animal (but again, I was not able to see them at this point aside from the eyes), and when the large pair of eyes fixed in me and began moving towards me (the movement description that comes to mind would be “stalking,” it suddenly dawned on me that this could potentially be a mother mountain lion and that I should get out of there since she would clearly find me a danger to her baby. But I didn’t dare to turn, so with our eyes locked I walked backwards up the hillside/street as swiftly as I could do so while still walking, and then as soon as I got around the corner with the corner of our property between us I walked quickly to my door and got inside. By the time I was back up to the window where I first saw the kitten, they had disappeared into the dark of the hillside below (I’m assuming) because although I watched for about half an hour there was not another sign of any movement. Afterwards on discussion with my husband, I considered what I had seen. I actually had assumed this must be a bobcat because of the young one’s markings…not knowing that the kittens are in fact marked with spots/stripes, dark points. But I realized that the tail of course, which was so prominent, meant this could not be a bobcat. Furthermore, my thought that this could have been a large domestic cat leaping and pouncing were negated by the much larger companion that I encountered. Quite an unusual experience….

Not sure if bobcat or mountain lion

 

carcass is next to the train tracks right along a short path leading into the open area from the parking lot 

Saw a bobcat cross in front of me carrying a dead prairie dog in its mouth. I was parked on Grover Lane at the opening to the open space. 

Bobcat crossed the bridge from Bridge Road onto Baywood Ave. (I was pushing a baby carriage at the time, or I would have gotten a photo while it was still on Bridge Road.)

Puma in Woodside

Looks like a mother and two cubs. 
Unfortunately the camera tripped late & only caught shoulder and back of mother.  Cub eyes (2 pair) can be seen, and if contrast adjusted you can see their body shapes.

Uploaded to youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNIy8Zr1e3Q

9/15/24, 12:32am west driveway

Just finished a hike at Tomales Point. Observed from car in open, grassy field (maybe 100-feet from the road?) on our way out. 
Glad I brought my binoculars!

Mountain lion went up the hill at 1:44AM and returned at 2:01AM. 

This collared puma went by first at 1:33AM and returned at 4:29AM. This puma appears to be different than our regular visitor - a bit leaner and with a collar

Bobcat was cruising through the grassy hillside behind our house. Moments before 3 deer scurried into their thicket. 

9/13/24, 7:11am west driveway

Mom with cub. 

Same (?) bobcat passed through the previous afternoon.

First puma visit to our yard in nearly five months.

9/12/24, 7:54pm

A bit hard to see but I think this is our neighbor's cat playing with a bobcat. 

Unusual to see this guy out in the middle of the afternoon.

Large mountain at 9pm in driveway.