Any ideas on what it was?

[SCOMAN]

I had a lovely walk today around Glendevon Reservoirs, excellent but wet day seen a hawk make a kill, a heron doing his thing(around the fishery!) and I don't know what else I saw. It was ferretlike completely white and fast, which is why I don't have a picture of it. Is there ferrets wild in the north Fife area or could it have been something more exotic?

 

[w00dsmoke]

I had a lovely walk today around Glendevon Reservoirs, excellent but wet day seen a hawk make a kill, a heron doing his thing(around the fishery!) and I don't know what else I saw. It was ferretlike completely white and fast, which is why I don't have a picture of it. Is there ferrets wild in the north Fife area or could it have been something more exotic?

It will be a stoat, there are plenty up there, I know the area very very well. Good for lizards in the summer too!

 

[SCOMAN]

Ah right thanks for that chum I'll have to keep my eye out for more and for lizards. What size are the lizards? Are we talking Gecko type thing?

 

[blodyntatws]

Definately sounds like a stoat to me. They are a member of the same family as weasels, polecats, ferrets, otters and badgers, the family name is Mustelidae. In the summer its coat will be a browny colour, it is during the winter that they become white when incidently they are known as ermine and they coats can be quite prized.
Got me on a subject I like, used to keep 80 ferrets but none since we moved here. Would like a few again, so if anyone has kits in the north wales area in summer let me know, my son is desperate to have one again.

Best wishes Loz