Spotted a 'Big Cat' earlier

[hopless500]

Well, what happens to the other birds when they die?

There are plenty of other birds and animals out there that are scavengers. There are always things flying/scuttling away from roadkill around here.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Tell me about it. We went to a monkey place in France once and one of them nicked my baccy out of my shirt pocket. Thieving little bleeders.

They can be aggressive, in the mating season especially.

The Baccy is for the post f**k smoke, innit??

'So dear, how did you find that??'

I saw a wallaby in Buck woods, north Bradford, nobody believed me, weeks later it was in the local paper afters several spottings.

There is an island on Loch Lomond that for years has, or at least did have a colony of them.

 

[jayonabike]

Whereabouts on the M25 were you?.

Near junction 23

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Near junction 23

Which, for future reference is...... Where?

 

[jayonabike]

Which, for future reference is...... Where?

South Mimms/ Potters Bar

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

South Mimms/ Potters Bar

Thanks, I've camped near to the M25 at Theobalds Park (just north of Waltham Cross, and seemingly somewhere between junctions 27 and 30 on the map I just looked up - I don't drive you see) before and was curious, as I could just about imagine large animals loping about the woods and countryside there.

[QUOTE 3079021, member: 259"]It goes round London.[/QUOTE]

Nothing gets past you, does it??

 

[raleighnut]

Thanks, I've camped near to the M25 at Theobalds Park (just north of Waltham Cross, and seemingly somewhere between junctions 27 and 30 on the map I just looked up) before and was curious, as I could just about imagine large animals loping about there.



Nothing gets past you, does it??

Bit like the London Orbital Carpark or M25 if you prefer.

 

[Paulus]

South Mimms/ Potters Bar

Lust a few of miles from where I live, I shall keep my eyes well open when I am out and about.

 

[raleighnut]

Lust a few of miles from where I live, I shall keep my eyes well open when I am out and about.

I thought we were talking cats not dog gers or maybe it was Omar after all,

 

[Paulus]

I thought we were talking cats not dog gers or maybe it was Omar after all,

You spotted my, h'hem deliberate mistake then!

 

[Moon bunny]

I do not know about this side of the sea, but there was a lynx shot by the police near Fintona, about 20 years ago.

 

[Brains]

There was a colony of wallabies near Macclesfield forest that dated back to before the second world war when they escaped from a private zoo. It was rumored that they died out in the late 90's during a bad winter but there have been sightings periodically in the area since then.

Yep, we have seen them (well one of them) a couple of years ago up near Grandbach, which is near Flash (the highest village in England)
A small breeding population have been around since the 1930's

 

[Brains]

My father, who used to go out on a lot of local shoots in Cornwall spotted the "Beast of Bodmin Moor" at least 3 times in the 1980's.
On one shoot they found the remains of a sheep lodged ten feet up in the fork of a tree.
He thought the animal was a black puma.

 

[Donger]

Yeah, we had one of those come in our living room the other day. Couldn't be doing with it.


(Actually this is Archie. He'll probably be reported as the "Beast of Gloucester" some time soon. Ignore the story).

Seriously, though, I must admit I reckon I too have seen a real one in Mid wales - and my sister in law found half a dead deer near to a known sighting near Birdlip in Glos a year or so back.

 

[Hover Fly]

Over 10 years ago there was a story in the local paper about someone seeing a "big cat" with the English Nature spokesperson coming out with the usual patronising "probably a feral cat.. trick of the light optical illusion etc" guff. A few weeks later I was with my then girlfriend-a fellow army sergeant-,my brother-a zookeeper-and his girlfriend, who has a phd in something zoological, so a group of people used to observing things in the open and pretty clued-up on wild animals, not far as the cat runs from the first sighting when we saw a puma, not as a fleeting distant glimpse, but about 30 yards away, sat on a rock in a typical cat on its haunches pose. We had a good look at her, she was close enough to see that she was female*, she had a good look at us, stepped down off her rock and strolled off (this was in the woods near Rusland Beeches for those who know the southern lake district.) We told the local paper, who again spoke to English Nature, but this time, for some strange reason, the spokie didn't comment.

*Females have a more delicate snout,