BCC EP:84 The wall-walker – filming a foraging panther

Don saw a black panther or leopard in Derbyshire in 1989 at a
time when local farmers and police were reporting sightings of a
big black cat in the Derbyshire press.  


Don retained his interest in the topic and brought a thermal
camera in 2022 to film local wildlife and hopefully a big cat.
Within a few weeks he noticed one of the blobs on his thermal
footage was cat shaped, and larger than any foxes and badgers he
had filmed. Seeing the shape again Don concluded he was indeed
filming a large cat. It is judged to be around 109 cms from nose
to rump.   


Don discusses the thermal footage on this episode. A selection of
the video recordings and stills taken from the videos are on the
Big Cat Conversations website, under ep 84 of the Refs &
Links page.     

Word of the week:   monopod


13 October 2022