Saw one crossing the road t'other day, looked just like a racked mouse.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Splatcher
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Saw one crossing the road t'other day, looked just like a racked mouse.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Splatcher
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.
Weasels are weasily wecognisableQuote:
Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy
from stoats which are stoatally different.
Remember that and you'll always get it right :rolleyes:.
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!
Got there in the end! :w00t:
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!!
I saw some hawfinches today, never clapped eyes on them before. Also a goldcrest.
And a miserable bugger of a farmer.
There's a lot of them Lesser-Humoured Farmers about!Quote:
Originally Posted by 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!
Hawfinches are a reet good spot!! I tried to see them down south lakes last April but didnt manage! Jealous I am!!:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by plodding bear
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