Great video just to let you all know I’ve seen a black leopard out of a train window near Salisbury so I know they are deffo hear let’s just hope they get protected beautiful animals :)

Nice one man. Thanks for the walk. There’s a similar thing going on here in Australia. Very cool.

Interesting vid 👍

Hi Jim, very interesting, have you checked the areas around Ampthill. Me and the hubby had a very odd experience, swear we saw a light coloured big cat up close near the rugby pitch a few years ago. So shocked, never got a picture unfortunately. Hardly mentioned this to anyone, fearing being told we are crackers!

Farmers rotate their crops and have a cover crop in over winter, I think it's stubble from an over wintered crop harvested in may.👍

Nice one Jim, really interesting mate! They’re out there. 🐾

@jim.m75

2 жыл бұрын

They are indeed stu, between your trail cam and my walking one of us might even get a video one day! Fingers crossed :)

That’s a House Cat LOL

That’s a house cat 😂

Great video next time im out on my bike i be looking out.

@jim.m75

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers lawrence!

hahaha, beast of Buckinghamshire cracked me up, i was eating my dinner and nearly spat it out, lol, Great video enjoyed that

@jim.m75

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Mike I'm glad you enjoyed it, I'm gonna start keeping an eye out a bit more, I walk in all the right places with a camera! Who knows!

Interestingly, my dad always said there was a big cat around Totternhoe when we lived there 13 years ago. We mainly walked around the fields by the quarry… I can’t remembering he had ever seen anything whilst out with the dog but he used to work with big cats so if he had seen anything he would highly likely know this was a big cat. Maybe it’s like the ghost sightings around the village, if you know you know 😅

@jelliking4ng877

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve literally just remembered being in school and seeing a “big cat” run across the school field, we were in English again about 12 years ago, and the whole class stood up and looked at it run across the field…

@jim.m75

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers for the comment, that's exactly the kind of first hand report I love! I think you are the third person to mention having seen 'something' in the comments now, thanks!

@jelliking4ng877

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the likes! Spoke to my dad about this and he said it was about 14 years ago, around dusk in the late summer as the crops had been cut back and there was no mistaking it was a “big cat” based on how it moved and the size of it.

@jelliking4ng877

2 жыл бұрын

@@jim.m75 no worries! When I saw this video I was like “urm my dad swore blind he saw a big cat…” I didn’t know it was a thing? I tend to believe my dad on this just because he worked with lions, tigers and wolves at Woburn for many years… The whole reason I watched a few of your videos was because someone on the Finding Leah Croucher FB asked if there was anywhere someone could hide a person easily in the local area, having explored a lot of totternhoe and surrounding areas as a kid I thought I’d refresh my memories of the lime works… They have a working theory she was in Eaton Bray in March 2019.

@jim.m75

2 жыл бұрын

@@jelliking4ng877 yes I know of that theory, that old farmhouse in eaton bray has some very dodgy circumstances around it!

Excellent vid as usual ! I have no doubt those big cats are out there, and have been for a long time. ( very ) rich people used to have what they called " Menageries " at least as far back as the 1800- and even before that ( I believe Some Knights returning from the Crusades brought exotic animals back with them ). Undoubtedly some of their collections would have escaped. Which might explain the legends of Knights fighting " Wyrms ". Sir Cuthbert Du Prat's pet crocodile escapes and he has to go after it before it eats too many peasants - or worse still, one of his horses ! The Crocodile, having no intention of going back in a cage fights to the death for it's freedom. And so another legend is added to the list lol. It's noticeable that a lot of the Wyrm and Dragon legends take place not too far from water. I have to say one thing about the Beasts Of Wherever. Out of all the sightings I think seeing The Beast Of Buckinghamshire devouring road kill is the one that would terrify me the most !

@jim.m75

2 жыл бұрын

That's a good point zed very interesting thought. I know these wyrm legends vary from giant snakes to full on dragons so yes maybe they are descriptions of exotic reptiles! Have you ever seen Irwin Saunders channel? He encountered a wyrm in his last video ;) Making this video left me with a couple of new questions so I might do a brief follow up soon.

@zednotzee7

2 жыл бұрын

@@jim.m75 I pop over to his channel now and again, just for a bit of fun. I shall have to give that vid a look. We have a couple of Dragon legends around my way ( one of which I think sounds more like a Viking raid than anything else ), and one which is a bit more interesting - the thing rampages like a good 'un and put's up a splendid fight before meeting it's end lol.

@zednotzee7

2 жыл бұрын

Just watched the vid. I really like their safety helmets lol. After a bit of thought, I've now subbed to him. Considering everything that's happening in the world a bit of gentle escapism nonsense is just the thing.

@jim.m75

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly zed, a nice bit of pure escapism and some brilliantly subtle cgi :)

i live in Washington State pacific northwest, we have every kind of wild life in my area, the only time you will see a lynx bob cat, cougar is when you are being stalked or if they are eating , or guarding a kill or kits, cats can go anywhere they want at anytime they want.

@jim.m75

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing creatures aren't they bob, I'd love to find a print or film a big cat one day.

Jim Really enjoyed your content mate Excellent video ❤🫡

And the pads on a cat have three lobes to a dog's two !

Doing the old family history thing, and I've got back to Tilsworth in 1603 on the side of the research that follows my actual surname. Amazing. The further back I go, the further east I go. Given that my surname is Fenn, this isn't surprising. I'm guessing that if it were possible to trace back further, I'd be in a Fenland area further east. Great to watch a video of where my ancestors probably lived and worked. Thanks.

Get a recording of the calls the female males and play it in the area.👍👌

I seen them around chick sands and campton

That field in the picture has already been harvested. If it wasnt then that leopard would be about 9 feet tall 😂

Darenth carp lakes 100% have at least two puma’s, hailshams cuckoo trail, I remember my dog was fixated on something in a bush, when I tried to look in the bush I heard a twig snap, whatever it was heavy. my was scared , I dragged him away and went home

@MightyMoo89

6 ай бұрын

very interesting comment. how long ago was this? if you're refering the darenth lakes in kent i used to live by the south darenth lakes & had a very close encounter (within 50 yards) with a puma back in 2009. Also saw a lynx in 07/08 in one of the fields next to the lakes. few locals have seen the lynx too. Not known of black cat sightings around there though.

@bumpyjason

6 ай бұрын

@@MightyMoo89 back in 2000 I was driving back from kfc dartford and as I was driving down the track towards the lake complex car park to continue fishing, I was eating fries and looking down to grab some more when I looked up and a puma ran from left to right, tan coloured, the thing that always sticks with me is the tail on it , it was a typical long sloping tail you see on panthers , I was cracking myself, it was pitch black and I had to walk to my swim with a crow bar, I’m convinced they’re here now

That pic could be taken on a field in May looks like field has been sprayed off and left ?? Set aside (fallow)

Great video just one thing black pumas dont exist a puma/couger is a mountain lion thers never been a black puma reported ever even in America also we do have big cats here for definite my mum seen a black leopard in some woodlands next to a manor house in west Yorkshire and i had a lynx hiss and bare its teeth at me on moorlands in west Yorkshire as a kid i know it was a lynx cos it had pointed tuffed ears and yellow eyes i also believe we have our own British big cat i believe theyre hybrids of pumas and leopards or leopards and domestic cats because some of the sightings are of big black cats that are big but not as big as a leopard and not leopard cubs either theyre hybrids

The thing with that Dunstable big cat is, there’s no muzzle at all, it’s got a perfect domestic cat profile, short neck, thin tail, short legs! Looks nothing like a panther

the pointed eared 'cougars' are most likely Caracals, they look similar in a lot of ways except the ears and the size.

its dogs that have symmetry in their feet, Cats have a leading toe.

I 100% believe there are big/exotic cats out there but it's extremely rare I see a picture that is not jus a large domestic cat.

That first picture of the video looks like a cardboard cut out to me but I definatley know they exist, I head an unmistakable big cat in heat when I was fishing at night on the river sow near Cannock Chase in Staffordshire about 5 or 6 years ago

The womans sighting in the Church is a perfect example of a hybrid looked like a couger but had pointed ears and its fur was mottled and darker this could have been either a cougar x lynx or couger x domestic or maybe even couger x jungle cat freaks of nature can happen like this we have ligers wolf dogs and also cyote dogs all hybrids

Crops aren't that tall and that animal has same ears as a house cat.

Pumas cougers and mountain lions are all the same breed of big cat just different names for the same thing

Find where the deer 🦌 hides in the day. The cats won't be far.

Where would a puma get a bicycle to chase cyclist with?🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️

Thats no moggy just look at the build of it.

First Photo obviously just Tiddles, no high crops field looks bare even paws hidden. DOMESTIC Cat. Big Cats only require about 2lb meat day that's size of a Pheasant no need bother with sheep

the perspective looks wrong and the proportions are more like a pet cat

The only people that don't take photos of phenomenon are the people that never saw anything in the first place.

It’s not a big cat Melanistic leopards are not dark black. Also a big cat wouldn’t expose itself like that. Finally any big cats released from private collections would all be dead by now

@edwardtreadwell3859

Жыл бұрын

I can't really understand what you mean when you say Melanistic Leopards are not dark black?. Melanism is the black form found in the Leopard and Jaguar species. Also, why do you think they are all dead now?. They are seen all over the UK even today. Cubs too.

@MrVelorider

Жыл бұрын

@@edwardtreadwell3859 can you show me a photo then please??? you can't just claim that they are seen all over the UK with absolutely zero conclusive evidence.

@edwardtreadwell3859

Жыл бұрын

@@MrVelorider You obviously need to do some research. There is loads of photos, video , and all other evidence out there. Oh, and i have seen one!.

@arthurmorgan7086

Ай бұрын

The poster is correct tho. Im not denying they are there. But they are not that dark. Almost a dark grey and youcan make the markings out ​@edwardtreadwell3859

In one sentence you claim pumas are adaptable and can live throughout America yet they can’t survive a cold UK winter!!

@edwardtreadwell3859

Жыл бұрын

Pumas/ Mountain Lions survive in the most hostile climates. The British climate is absolutely ideal for them to prosper.

@edwardtreadwell3859

Жыл бұрын

@@Steves_fish Absolutely right!. I saw my second Black Leopard recently. 23 years since my first. Totally different area and circumstances.

Photo is 100% fake, don't waste your time dwelling on it.