Sighting of the Week

Northamptonshire, Wellingborough area, 17 Feb 2008, 2.30 p.m.
A family of four out for a walk all saw a very large black cat.

"We were going for a long walk through the fields; the area was deserted and quiet; weather beautiful. I was ahead of my husband and children and had just turned into a gap in the hedgerow to go into the next field, when I noticed a big brown/ black animal about 5m away from the hedgerow/ spinney; I thought at first it was another Muntjac deer, but then the tail was clearly far too long and big and it moved like a cat; it jumped away once my husband and (noisy) children had caught up with me."

Other sightings reported over the last fortnight include Lynx (2), and large cats of different colours: grey (2), fawn (1), and the ubiquitous black (11).