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		Lots to catch up on! :) I almost charged into a roe deer on my run this evening. It was bounding across my path as I was running downhill. Also saw a flock of long tailed tits in the garden next door, a little owl on the road the other evening, a dipper on the Ure and a weasel near the Bowder Stone in the lakes at the weekend. Not to mention the gorgeous red deer stag on my recce of the Langdale Horseshoe two weeks ago.
	 
	
	
	
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		I saw a weasel / stoat dashing around at the N end of Eccup reservoir embankment last Friday.  Googling to try and find out which it was, I found out they are extremely similar, and also found this joke:
Q. What's the difference between a stoat and weasel?
A. A Weasel is weasily wecognised and a stoat is stoataly different
	 
	
	
	
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Alexandra
				
			 
			I saw a weasel / stoat dashing around at the N end of Eccup reservoir embankment last Friday. Googling to try and find out which it was, I found out they are extremely similar, and also found this joke:
Q. What's the difference between a stoat and weasel?
A. A Weasel is weasily wecognised and a stoat is stoataly different
			
		
	 
 Stoat has a black tip on tail.
http://www.wildlifebritain.com/stoatorweasel.php
	 
	
	
	
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			Lots to catch up on! :) I almost charged into a roe deer on my run this evening. It was bounding across my path as I was running downhill. Also saw a flock of long tailed tits in the garden next door, a little owl on the road the other evening, a dipper on the Ure and a weasel near the Bowder Stone in the lakes at the weekend. Not to mention the gorgeous red deer stag on my recce of the Langdale Horseshoe two weeks ago.
			
		
	 
 Not quite as scary as this way round:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15265569
	 
	
	
	
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		Crikey!!! That looked a bit unnerving. :w00t:
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		That's a great joke. I will tell Margarine.
	 
	
	
	
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Alexandra
				
			 
			I saw a weasel / stoat dashing around at the N end of Eccup reservoir embankment last Friday.  Googling to try and find out which it was, I found out they are extremely similar, and also found this joke:
			
		
	 
 Must be the season for them. This afternoon I saw one (weasel or stoat - sorry, Rodders it disappeared into the undergrowth before I spotted the colour of the tail-tip) running into the undergrowth off the side road to Belmont reservoir.
	 
	
	
	
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 Crumbs, I'll maybe think an extra time or two before I go for my long runs across similar terrain next time I'm back home in Gabon!
	 
	
	
	
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		Saw flocks of Redwing and fieldfares on my run this morn.
	 
	
	
	
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		Dead Pine Martin at the southern end of the Kessock Bridge (Inverness). Always wanted to see one but would have prefered if it had been alive.