Today's Wildlife Encounter

[stevefoster]

How did you know it was a stoat?

It had a stoat club vest on

[Chris H]

They've started spreading out, too. Often see them soaring high above Bolton Abbey.

Often seen them over our house in the Roundhay area of Leeds.

[plodding bear]

Grouse whaddya mean "how do you know it was a stoat?". it was stoat-sized, looked like a stoat, spoke in stoat, and had a t-shirt with the words "I'm a little stoat" on it...
at first I thought it might be a reindeer.

[stevefoster]

Grouse whaddya mean "how do you know it was a stoat?". it was stoat-sized, looked like a stoat, spoke in stoat, and had a t-shirt with the words "I'm a little stoat" on it...
at first I thought it might be a reindeer.

An easy mistake to make

[plodding bear]

It is indeed an easy mistake to make, but as I've never seen a reindeer up there I thought on balance I'd go for a stoat.

[IanDarkpeak]

Grouse whaddya mean "how do you know it was a stoat?". it was stoat-sized, looked like a stoat, spoke in stoat, and had a t-shirt with the words "I'm a little stoat" on it...
at first I thought it might be a reindeer.

What a great Idea PB (you're not pete Bland in disguise are you?) Get all wildlife to were Tshirts stating what genus they are. Then there would never be a mistake, I see you've already run a field test on Fell ponies....

[Rob Furness]

Saw a couple of grouse today at Fountains abbey near ripon. I saw a weasel the other day as well, bloody tiny it was. Came out investigating whilst I was eating my lunch in a rural layby

[Rodders]

Saw a couple of grouse today at Fountains abbey near ripon. I saw a weasel the other day as well, bloody tiny it was. Came out investigating whilst I was eating my lunch in a rural layby

Before Grouse gets in "How did you know it was a weasel?"

[Rob Furness]

Because it told me so

[stevefoster]

Because it told me so

Might have been a stoat with compulsive lying syndrome?