Link to video of the melanistic leopard filmed at Wortham, North Suffolk in 2010. This shows cropped, close-up footage of the melanistic leopard. © Lee Acaster, 2010, 2021, reproduced with his kind permission.
Link to video of the strange off-white big cat seen by Russell Green in 2018 in a field on the edge of Thetford Forest, just over the Norfolk border. © Russell Green, 2018, used with his kind permission.
Link to video in which Russell Green is shown returning to the scene shortly after his encounter with the big cat. He compares the sizes of the hedges and fence posts seen in the video for scale. © Russell Green, 2018, used with his kind permission.
Photo: © Tommy McCarthy, used with his kind permission
Spine and pelvis (above) of a yearling muntjac (a muntjac deer less than a year old), found by a stream near All Hallow’s Convent, Ditchingham in October 2023. (Ditchingham is just over the Norfolk-Suffolk border, near Bungay.) According to big cat expert Jonathan McGowan, who has been studying kill signs for over 40 years, it was most likely killed by a lynx, jungle cat or “wildcat-sized beast.” McGowan added that couldn’t completely rule out a fox, though.
It wouldn’t have been predated on by a larger cat such as a leopard or puma, as they could “consume all the ribs as they are so small”.
Photo: Supplied to bigcatsofsuffolk.com, copyright holder is known to me.
In January 2025 I received a series of photos of possible big cat kills from a witness based in the Wickham Market area. The photo above shows a total of seven kills from around Suffolk – three different species of deer, a swan and a lamb. (Shown above is a fallow deer carcass found in the Wickham Market area.) At the witnesses’ request, I have to be vague about some of the locations. The full series of photos is linked from here…
Also in January 2025, I received from a different witness a single photo (above) of another possible big cat kill – a muntjac with its back end eaten away and its nose apparently bitten off. This was found in the area around Bildeston, Suffolk. There’s more on this here…
Photo: Supplied to bigcatsofsuffolk.com, copyright holder is known to me.