Today's Wildlife Encounter

[stevefoster]

Weasels just look like long mice...

Saw one crossing the road t'other day, looked just like a racked mouse.....

[plodding bear]

Stoats have wider, more triangly heads if you see them face on as well. Quite a bit bigger, not as gingery as a weasel. I saw a lesser spotted woodpecker near Addingham last night on my way home from work.

[molehill]

...or possibly not, having 'googled' it!! You've got me now!! I think Stoats are bigger with shorter tail, according to Wiki, they also have the black tail end! But now not sure wether weasels have a black tip! I'm sticking with Stoat after 'extensive' research!!

Weasels are weasily wecognisable
from stoats which are stoatally different.

Remember that and you'll always get it right .

Asthe others say, weasels are really very small, the "elongated mouse" is a pretty good description. Stoats have the black tip and actually look big enough to kill something for dinner!

[Grouse]

Got there in the end! :w00t:

[that_fjell_guy]

Thank you people!!! stoat it was...clearly I've never ever seen a weasel!!

Tho' out on my run today I saw a pair of foxes fighting in a copse!!! Noisy buggers, very close to me they were too. Also A buzzard by the road flew off about 10' from me!!

[plodding bear]

I saw some hawfinches today, never clapped eyes on them before. Also a goldcrest.
And a miserable bugger of a farmer.

[stevefoster]

And a miserable bugger of a farmer.

There's a lot of them Lesser-Humoured Farmers about!

[plodding bear]

Yeah, fat bloke with a nissan navara. I've met other farmers round there before - real ones with collies and land rovers! - and never had a problem with them, but this guy - what a c**k!

[that_fjell_guy]

I saw some hawfinches today, never clapped eyes on them before. Also a goldcrest.
And a miserable bugger of a farmer.

Hawfinches are a reet good spot!! I tried to see them down south lakes last April but didnt manage! Jealous I am!!

[Rob Furness]

Saw a clutch (?) of freshly hatched moorhen chicks the other day at a private fishing lake in starbeck, can't have been more than a couple of weeks old. Cute little things