I'm working on an interactive map with big cat sightings, field signs and kill signs in and around Suffolk.
So far I've done everything from 1977 to 2006, hundreds more to go to bring it up to the present.
It'll be published on bigcatsofsuffolk.com eventually.
Report of a big cat seen this morning (20 04 26) in a field in Theberton, #Suffolk. “Black, long tail… Some white on head… About size of a large alsation dog,”length (nose to rump): “1m plus.” Seen for a few seconds 10m away.
Regrettably the Adnams Ghost Ship at the Eel's Foot pub in Eastbridge, #Suffolk is currently "broken", so we were unable to play on it.🙁
Received a report of a long-bodied black big cat, "small head... body stretched out," seen for 2-3 seconds from 60m away at Whepstead (near Bury St Edmunds) at around 8.20am on 28 03 26.
As "bus went past it dived into the hedge in one bound."
I received a report of a black big cat seen in headlights running across the road near Lawford, North Essex on the night of 20/03/26.
"Very long, quite furry... thick, very long tail… Too big for a fox and not those proportions...Running like a big cat." Length approx. 1.5m, "larger than a dog."
Map with an update on #Suffolk big cat sightings and kill signs, November 2025 to March 2026. bigcatsofsuffolk.com/suffolk-big-...
What did the Romans do for us? They forgot to take Alexanders with them when they left in 410AD. Early flowers from where it is invading a #Cambridge hedge. #WildFlowerHour
In 19th century England rectangular livestock paintings were commissioned by prosperous farmers to showcase their wealth and status. The same artistic distortion would also be applied to pigs and sheep.
#BookologyThursday
I was sent this photo of a muntjac carcass - possible big cat kill(?) - found in Dunwich, #Suffolk on 01/03/26. An ecologist who's an expert on big cats told me they're 80% certain it's a big cat kill. Copyright holder of the image is known to me, more information to follow.
Report received of "growling" heard in woods at Earl Soham, #Suffolk.
Mystery animal of #Suffolk with a human head! It's a pew end at All Saints Church, Laxfield.
An archangel with a wheel, indicating it's one of the Ophanim, the wheel-like archangels seen in the vision of Ezekiel, they allegedly guard God's throne. This one has feathers 🪶 covering most of his body. He's on the altar screen at St Edmund's Church, Southwold, #Suffolk
Michael the Archangel with scales ready to judge the quick and the dead, also with feathers 🪶 all over his limbs, St Edmund's Church, Southwold, #Suffolk
I've been visiting Southwold regularly for well over a decade, how could I not have noticed before this very worn away wildman with a raised club on the doorway of St Edmund's church?
A kill sign from Ufford, #Suffolk, and recent lynx(?) sightings in the area.
bigcatsofsuffolk.com/a-kill-sign-...
East Anglian big cat sighting! Lela the black leopard arrives at Hamerton Zoo,Cambridgeshire www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/whats-on/thi...
Report of a big cat sighting just came into bigcatsofsuffolk.com - seen after dark by a driver in their headlights 17/2/26 Bawdsey, #Suffolk. "Grey/silver with spots... grey lynx or small leopard," size of a "large dog." Witness "only saw the back half... running into brush".
Recent report of big cat sightings, seen after dark by a driver in their headlights - 13/2/26 Puttock End, Essex (near Sudbury), "black", body "the size of a large muntjac, if not larger... skinny at the back", long tail, 5-10 feet away.
I think it might be a museum of enamel?
"The Great Sea Serpent of Table Bay", South Africa, reported in The Cape Argus, 14 March 1857. From Sir Richard Owen's sea serpent scrapbook 📔, @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social . Image: Courtesy of Trustees of the @nhm.org
"Monster of the deep" seen off the coast of Peru in 1912, from an unnamed newspaper, inserted into Sir Richard Owen's sea serpent scrapbook after his death. Marginal note by illustration says "dead narwhal". Image: courtesy of Trustees of the @nhm-london.bsky.social @bestcryptids.bsky.social
Sketch apparently showing two mating(?) whales 🐳 🐳 - misidentified as a sea serpent? Also a reference to "Mososaurus" in notes above. From Sir Richard Owen's sea serpent scrapbook, @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social. Image: Courtesy Trustees of the Natural History Museum @bestcryptids.bsky.social
Suffolk big cats - lions 🦁 on the facade of the Ancient House, Halesworth
Ostrich food, also Rhea food, also feed for "Exotic- racing & breeding camels as well as zoo animals", Holton Road Garden Centre, #Suffolk.
East Anglian big cat sighting! Panther Cabs advertising poster spotted from the platform of Colchester Station.
The spectacular, fossil-lined, Bell Beaker grave of a young adult and child from Dunstable Downs, England. Genetic analysis revealed these to be a paternal aunt and her six year old neice. C. 4000 yrs BP
#TombTuesday
www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-4561...
"Another sea serpent" seen by crew of the /Imogen/ travelling from South Africa to London at Lat. 29 deg. 11 min. N, Long. 34 deg. 11 min. W, 15/05/1856, from Richard Owen's sea serpent scrapbook 📔, @nhm.org Library, image: courtesy Trustees of the Natural History Museum. @bestcryptids.bsky.social
Here, with permission from the copyright-holder, is a photo of the muntjac carcass found in the Ufford (#Suffolk) area on 07/02/26. Witness returned the following day and found it been predated on some more.
This follows a "lynx-like" big cat seen nearby by a different witness on 31/01/26.
