Weasel

[Burnt Ash]

This afternoon, I was driving back from taking my Mum and an old family friend to the pub for lunch. I decided the return journey would be via a small back lane near Bewl Water, so that we could look at the primroses and 'wooden enemies' and try and spot some early purple orchids. This particular lane is very narrow, with passing places, and I was driving along slowly when we saw an odd-shaped 'thing' crossing the road a few yards ahead of us. I stopped the car level with where it had crossed and, for a few seconds, we watched a weasel struggling up the near vertical bank with a robin in its jaws before it disappeared through the hedge. It couldn't have been more than six feet from us. They are amazing little predators. Of course the ladies felt very sorry for the poor robin.

Burnt Ash

 

[tomtom]

amazing, the only times i ever see weasels is when they dart across the road in frount of me, they are pretty cool IMO!

 

[pierre girard]

Ounce for ounce, one of the most vicious predetors on the planet.

We tamed a feral cat - had her for 17 years. About three or four times, over the years, she came home with a dead weasel. My father wouldn't believe it until I showed him one of the dead weasels. Cat gets into it with a weasel - you usually have a dead cat.

 

[demographic]

My mother once described an occasion when her and my father found a weasels den/nest (whatever its called) when my father turned over a bit of corrugated roofing sheet that was on the ground.

My father then very gently poked the young weasels with the unloaded shotgun barrel and the young uns tried to bite the steel

He then placed the sheet back where it was before and they went on their way, happy at seeing them.