Stoat or weasel ?

[Scots_Charles_River]

Im out and about blackness foreshore and witnessed this



http://s1028.photobucket.com/albums/y349/NickScots/?action=view&current=VklERU8wMTcyLjNncA.mp4

 

[Keith_Beef]

You know how to tell the difference?



































































Weasels are weaselly recognized, but a stoat's totally different.

(read it out loud if you didn't groan when you first read it)

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

Nope, it had big ears and a black tipped tail.

 

[Geoff Dann]

From that video it could be a stoat, a weasel, a mink or even a pine marten. Stoats and weasels are pretty hard to distinguish even up close.

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Your in a better position to say 'cause you were there..............weasels are really tiny. If it had a black tipped tail then it was a stoat.

 

[Geoff Dann]

Your in a better position to say 'cause you were there..............weasels are really tiny. If it had a black tipped tail then it was a stoat.

Weasels are almost the same size as stoats.

 

[Mick w.]

Not the ones I've seen, quite a bit smaller. Also, stoats have a flatterwider looking head, more sort of 'triangular' if seen from the front.

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Weasels are weaselly recognized, but a stoat's totally different.

(read it out loud if you didn't groan when you first read it)

That should read " A weasel is weasily wecognised & a stoat is stoataly different" ...........................& yes I groaned

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Weasels are almost the same size as stoats.

Do you mean that weasels are almost as big as stoats or that stoats are almost as small as weasels ?

 

[Chiseller]

Not the ones I've seen, quite a bit smaller. Also, stoats have a flatterwider looking head, more sort of 'triangular' if seen from the front.

+1 I may not know my mushrooms, but I do know my weeeeesels

 

[fishfish]

looks like german weasels to me,a spot on id i think?...........

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

I'll post some phone pics later but it was about 20cm long and out of proportion big ears and a tail, about 2/3 the length of the body. The tail had a distinct black tip, almost like it had been dipped in a tin of paint. When it saw me 10secs later it almost squared up at me from about ten feet away, certainly pretty fearless of me.

 

[fishfish]

stoat for sure mate aka ermine.

 

[robin wood]

stoats are bigger than weasles but a small stoat and a large weasle can be the same size and unless you have something to compare to it is difficult to judge size at a distance anyway. The black tip to the tail is the thing to look for so this one is defo stoat.

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

Here's what I saw, although very much louder squeals and the rabbit got away !

http://youtu.be/HNbqvqf3-14

 

[Miyagi]

Im out and about blackness foreshore and witnessed this



http://s1028.photobucket.com/albums/y349/NickScots/?action=view&current=VklERU8wMTcyLjNncA.mp4

If you mean Blackness on the River Forth, I was in the woods to the East with my dog!

A StoaT has a black Tip to its Tail; that's how I recognise them, even in their Winter white coat.


Liam

 

[21st century pict]

I can’t tell from the vid but as Miyagi and robin wood said a black tip on the tail is diagnostic of stoat,.

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

Miyagi,

I saw some dog walkers. I walked around the castle then along the shore, beach combing, then in at the burn that comes down from Abercorn. Then back along SUSTRANS 76 to the bridge then back tot he castle.

Did I walk past you ?

The Stoat seems to have a burrow right on the shore at the castle wall. Spotted some bones and poo there.

 

[Miyagi]

S_C_R,

I was on the top path above the woods, scouting out hammock sites. I didn't go down towards the castle as it means jumping a deep burn and clambering over fallen trunks. The river at Abercorn is Midhope Burn, great to cool off in on a hot day.

If you saw a brown and white collie with his owner huffing and puffing along - that was me.

Liam

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

I can’t tell from the vid but as Miyagi and robin wood said a black tip on the tail is diagnostic of stoat,.

Ok, 100% dipped tail, so Stoat !

Two Doctors of Biology at school agreed it was a Stoat too.

Next ID what killed this ?

No ring of Feathers plucked so I'm thinking not a Sparrowhawk but a fox ?
Found on the edge of the Sustrans 76 woods.