What's been at my frying pan?

[Wayland]

I pulled my frying pan out from under the fire tray at the weekend and found that something had been helping itself to some fat from the sausages.

What is not quite visible in this picture are tiny smeared paw prints in the greasy surface top right of the frame.

Jonathan has a pretty good idea what it might be but what do you think?

 

[budgetbus]

Rat........

 

[Man of Tanith]

some sort of rodent i think.
possibly a mouse?

 

[Shewie]

I'll have a pop at a Dormouse ?

 

[Bushwhacker]

I'd say rat, had one get into my kitchen once and have a go at the butter dish*. The tooth marks look the same.

*duly trapped and shot.

 

[nitrambur]

Obligatory patently obviously not answer -

Badger?

 

[EdS]

shrew I guess

 

[gregorach]

Obviously a rodent, but hard to say exactly which from a photo... Any droppings?

 

[Bushwhacker]

shrew I guess

Can't be shrew, they have pointy teeth.

 

[Wayland]

Sorry, no droppings that I could see.

 

[Wayland]

How about a closer shot?

This is a big as I can make it.

 

[stovie]

How about a closer shot?

This is a big as I can make it.

Archaeopteryx...

 

[JonathanD]

Got to admit, when I first saw it on the camera screen on Sunday, I thought it was the pattern of a birds tail feathers that had landed in the pan. It's very symmetrical.

 

[Bushwhacker]

Not a Hedgehog is it?

 

[malente]

Whale shark?




My guess is martin

 

[shaggystu]

squirrel

stuart

 

[Andy2112]

squirrel

stuart

which one, Stu, you or the squirrel ?

 

[Whittler Kev]

Johnathon wandering in his sleep? could be why he has a pretty good idea

 

[Andy2112]

Johnathon wandering in his sleep? could be why he has a pretty good idea

Not JD Kev, he was hung up at the time, lol

 

[British Red]

Could be a birds beak scooping it up? I've had all sorts after fat - particularly robins. I would have to say it does appear to be a pair of incisors....

Bank vole?