hunterpaul
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here is something I have just finished... press on the link to see the pic.... thanks Paul
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here is something I have just finished... press on the link to see the pic.... thanks Paul
Woody
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Great, I love stoats! I can see you've not had 'idle hands' lately 
I particularly like the way you've got all the bashing and dirt and saw marks on the log ends, that's how it is and there's a tendency to try to clean stuff like that up so it's good to resist the temptation.
Mike
I particularly like the way you've got all the bashing and dirt and saw marks on the log ends, that's how it is and there's a tendency to try to clean stuff like that up so it's good to resist the temptation.
Mike
timwootton
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Fine portrait Paul - those bright black eyes are great - really one of the cutest assassins nature has produced. Excellent!
hunterpaul
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and very efficient at its job too.... I saw a fab bit of footage of one running a rabbit around a field until the rabbit was exhausted, then he popped over and slayed his quarry... all the while all the other rabbits sat around eating grass, nonchelantly (SP).... I also saw not so long back, what I thought was a deformed rabbit, dragging itself across the road, it then proceeded to climb the wall at the side of the road, it was then I got a glimpse of this tiny creature, managing to drag this corpse that was three times its size over the wall... I got out and before I got there the stoat and rabbit were both gone... like magic... brilliant... Paul
sorry not to have commented sooner paul,this is a lovely image,i can imagine the animal popping itself in and out of the logs to peek at whatever happens by as they do.your tale of the rabbit climbing the wall reminds me of an encounter i had with a weasel whilst out mountain biking a couple of years ago.i spotted a house sparrow in the road,wings outstretched and on its back but moving! on stopping the bike about 5 ft away the sparrow (obviously dead)stopped moving and a little face peered out at me from beneath.the weasel promptly dropped its prey and legged it but knowing them as i do i knew it wouldnt be able to resist popping back and sure enough a minute later it returned,gave me a glance and legged it again this time with sparrow!
phil baber
Clipped Wing
That's a "Stoatling" Colleen.
A "Weasling" is more "weasingly" recognised.
Great work on the logs stoat Paul! :t:
And I stoatily agree!
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