Big cat sighting in ancient woodland park near London…..!
Not bad is it? You can probably tell that it is not real but on a casual glance in the mist you might not be so certain. This black panther “big cat” is, in fact, a stuffed toy that was dumped in Epping Forest illegally and then someone put it on the branch of the tree.
The point I am gently making is that it is quite easy to produce a “big cat sighting” in the UK and they routinely occur at least once, annually.
You can see the real thing on this page. This black panther plush toy is far too insubstantial to be the real thing, which is more muscular, bigger and powerful looking. “Black panther” usually refers to the melanistic jaguar or leopard and occasionally the black puma.
The photo is “as is” except for adding an old feel to it. I believe it was taken by a City of London forest keeper.
crazy tree hugger as well as crazy cat lady lol
When I walk in Richmond Park – a beautiful, wild place, that has some fine trees – I touch some of them and talk to them…..he’s mad 😉
lo I love that Michael, all the best people are mad 😉
Beautiful!
I have a national forest nearby, but it’s not what is really considered a forest like up north.
Loads of trees, but brush that is thick and hard to move through. It’s what I go through every morning; but, after all these years, I have made paths with my stomping through.
Such gorgeous trees in these pics!
And, who is that gorgeous girl making love to them?
Epping Forest is gorgeous. Very old and a special place. Funnily enough it is just outside a part of London that is very ordinary dull.
lol Dee you should have gone to Specsavers lol
do they have specsavers in America Dee?
lol
I have never heard of Specsavers, Rose. But, I guessed that they were a vision center. Is that right?
In any case, Ruth AKA, all girls are beautiful!
Just for you Dee lol
http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/10/25/specsavers-continues-should-ve-gone-campaign-workout
LOL!
A very clever video!
At first glance it does look like a real panther.
Marc we have lots of trees in the North, we have Hamsterley Forest just half an hour’s drive away and Bluebell woods around here and our Parks have lots of trees, the back of our Grove has rows of trees too, you’d love it here if you love trees, like I do 🙂
LOL – big time. I see a black panther….help…save me…! It’s a vegetarian black panther on its hind legs….
It’s a very rare species of half person/half feline, people have tried to catch and tame it for years but without success, it still goes around hugging trees and creeping through undergrowth and paddling in streams, even in graveyards. Its sister always arms herself with a camera when she goes out with it, she is used to its eccentricities and she loves and protects it 😉
LOL. Just woke up and had a good laugh.
I thought it was a real panther at first as well roflol and now pmsl at the comments by you daft lot on Ruth’s pictures lol lol
I didn’t realize they still had trees in England, forests even!
When I lived in London the nearest place of natural wilderness (kind of) was the New Forest.
The reason I left England is because it has no more wilderness or true nature and I got depressed always having to drive for hours to get to the nearest real forest – if you could call it that.
Epping Forest is really nice and a bit of a treasure but it is not that big an area and roads dissect it.