Hi cat lovers, I am reminded of an incident which occurred many years ago when Paul and myself were doing a Perseid meteor watch one night on Clee Hill, not far from Ludlow. We were surrounded by heather moor and intermittent gorse thickets, which proved useful as a windbreak. Then well into the watch we heard the sound of heavy breathing in conjunction with a continuous rasping like noise from the bushes nearby. Paul was convinced it was nothing more than a sheep with asthma, there are plenty grazing on the hills round about, but I was not so sure. In the winter months that followed I received two seperate reports from friends, of strange happenings in close proximity to this spot. The first was when a close friend, in company with his wife, were walking near the summit of Titterstone Clee, when they came upon the tracks of a large feline in the freshly fallen snow which then carpeted the hill, apparently they soon made their way back to the car, quite unsettled by the event I would imagine. The second incident involved a friend of my fathers, who sadly as since passed away. He describes an encounter he witnessed from the comfort of his car, once again it was on a snowy afternoon, when a large cat, he thought it might have been a Lnyx ! was seen pursuing a brown hare on the heather clad moorland just above the main road. Coincidence or what? I will leave this to members of the Astro Lounge to decide. Keep your eyes peeled, Chris .