Quote Originally Posted by Alexandra View Post
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