Talk about being at the right place at the right time with a camera... :yikes:
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What an Amazing Photo!!
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Good grief what a shot! That might win a photography award or two!
Just shows how powerful weasels are, that they are prepared to tackle such large prey. I once found a weasel dragging a dead fox cub across a road. The cub was so young it still had its eyes closed, and must have been taken from the fox den, but it was the same size as the weasel.
Just shows how powerful weasels are, that they are prepared to tackle such large prey. I once found a weasel dragging a dead fox cub across a road. The cub was so young it still had its eyes closed, and must have been taken from the fox den, but it was the same size as the weasel.
Watch a weasel or stoat take a rabbit some time and you will know they are, pound for pound, much harder than Chuck Norris
Call me cynical if you like but I have serious doubts on the validity of the photo, I've seen several weasels in the wild and watched one work the bank of a small stream but I have never seen one climbing trees. I have seen woodpeckers watched them hammer dead trees usually near the top.
The photo itself would have had to be taken in a split second of the observer seeing the woodpecker, and I am very suspicious of the shallow focus being exactly on the fast moving subject, so precise that the background is totally blurred.
Sorry but I just don't buy it, amazing what can be achieved by photo editing software.
The photo itself would have had to be taken in a split second of the observer seeing the woodpecker, and I am very suspicious of the shallow focus being exactly on the fast moving subject, so precise that the background is totally blurred.
Sorry but I just don't buy it, amazing what can be achieved by photo editing software.
Green woodpeckers hunt for food on the ground, so would be vulnerable to a weasel as described.
Weasels and stoats are double hard. I remember being out in the dales, hearing a scream and coming over a ridge to see a weasel dragging a rabbit off that it had just killed. The weasel stopped, looked up at us and gave us a look that could only be translated as "do you want some too?" was glad I was 6 foot taller than it.
Yep, I've watched spend hours on the ground for a good food source
Green Woodpecker by British Red, on Flickr
Green Woodpecker by British Red, on Flickr
Young Green Woodpecker by British Red, on Flickr
"Green woodpeckers hunt for food on the ground, so would be vulnerable to a weasel as described". Yep.
"I am very suspicious of the shallow focus". - wildlife photographers have been able to do this manually for years, and modern cameras can do this easily even with a less skilled operator.
"I am very suspicious of the shallow focus". - wildlife photographers have been able to do this manually for years, and modern cameras can do this easily even with a less skilled operator.
Although the story is plausible I still don't buy it, rather more like a deliberate attempt to make it go viral on the internet. If something looks to good to be true it usually isn't.
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