Congratulations

Congratulations to my daughter Helen & son-in- law Dane, they have just found out they are expecting their first baby
 
Some of you will have met them at the Hull conference, (seen here on their honeymoon in Egypt last year)
 
Mark

 

Big Cats in the News

Investigators Meet to Unravel Mystery of Big Cat Sightings By Lucy Richardson
The Northern Echo: 16th February 2009
http://www.scottishbigcats.co.uk/engnews975.htm
 
Big Cats in Gloucestershire Talk Rachel Clare
Stroud News and Journal: 16th February 2009
http://www.scottishbigcats.co.uk/engnews977.htm
 
Share Your Big Cat Sightings
Gloucestershire Echo: 19th February 2009
http://www.scottishbigcats.co.uk/engnews992.htm
Mum Shocked by Big Cat Sighting
East Anglian Daily Times: 19th February 2009
http://www.scottishbigcats.co.uk/engnews980.htm
 
Big-Cat [...]

Search For Puma Finds Jaguar

Search For Puma Finds Jaguar
Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 21st, 2009
http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/find-jag/

Glos talk by Rick Minter & Tunbridge

Frank and I gave our latest talk to about 50 people at Cold Aston village hall in mid Cotswolds, near Bourton on the Water, last night. Really good to see Rik from Kent – hope you got back ok, and glad you met Frank and saw the puma photo.

Things which struck me were…

Several people [...]

Man finds African wildcat in Uptown backyard

by Coleman Warner, The Times-Picayune
Wednesday February 18, 2009, 8:08 AM

When Carl Henderson stepped into the backyard of his mother’s Uptown home Tuesday at mid morning, he was checking out a neighbor’s report of raccoon playing about.
He found something quite different.
Henderson encountered what looked like a small cheetah, 22 pounds and lean, two feet tall in [...]

What Happened to the Tiger?

From The New York Times 7th December 1913
Ballooning With a Tiger
American Aeronauts Left the Beast to Ride by Himself
The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Daily Citizen sends a curious
story of the alleged amazing adventure of American balloonists with a
tiger.
Accompanied by his fiancée, Mr Fobster, an American airman well known
in Siberia (according to Russian papers from [...]

Inside Out, 7.30pm, BBC One on Wednesday 18 February 2009.

Inside Out, 7.30pm, BBC One on Wednesday 18 February 2009.
Are there big cats at large?
Big Cats
Claims of sightings of ‘big cats’ in Britain are persistent – yet, no conclusive proof has ever been found of the mysterious creatures existence.
A recent spate of sightings in the Forest of Dean has revived long-standing claims by locals that [...]

Ode to Terry…..

Sung to the tune of YMCA 

Terry; there’s no need to feel down
There are Panthers… running around
People see them… in every town
But they don’t have cameras
 
Terry; get your digital out
And Terry; keep on running about
You will see one and let there be no doubt
You will get that picture
 
It’s fun to be in the B-C-I-B
It’s fun to [...]

BCIB on Radio BBC Derbyshire

BCIB on Radio BBC Derbyshire.
 
BCIB Derbyshire representative Sue Pocock has been busy of late with a spate of sightings in that county. Nigel Spencer helped out and did a few local radio shows; here is one.
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Hi folks
Thursdays Shane O’connor breakfast show interview with the farmer and myself at Whatstandwell is here
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0024hhw/Shane_OConnors_Breakfast_Show_12_02_2009/
 
Its was at 1:49 into the [...]

Teesside Filming

On Monday the 23rd BCIB are coming to the Teesside area to film witnesses, if anyone in the area wishes to be filmed for the video to be shown at the up-coming conference, please get in touch
bigcatsinbritain@btinternet.com