Quote Originally Posted by ba-ba View Post
Had a stoat take a tour round the garden last night, before hopping into the field behind, spotted from the upstairs window.

I had to check online to determine it as a stoat not a weasel, as it turns out that the joke "Weasels are weasily recognised, whereas Stoats are stoatly different" is not a useful way to delineate between the two.
Stoats have a black tip on their tails.

I've had one living in the byre for the last couple of years (think it may go on its hols during the summer months and returns for winter). I regularly see it walking in broad daylight around the garden, hauling captured voles and rabbits and leaving skulls all about the place . Cured our rodent problem nicely.