Woodlore's Director, Steve Gurney, made a surprise spotting when visiting one of our East Sussex course sites earlier this year:
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It was a lovely sunny August afternoon and I was walking back to my car during a visit to one of Woodlore’s course sites. Suddenly, a small creature ran straight out in front of me. I immediately stopped in my tracks; the creature also stopped and then made a u-turn and sped back from where it came from. I slowly crept towards and looked into the bushes where the creature entered and to my astonishment a little weasel was staring right back at me. “Who’s looking at who here?” I thought, and then “Quick, take a photo”.[caption id="attachment_5315" align="aligncenter" width="420"]
Weasel Watching[/caption]
Luckily I had my new camera at the ready as I had been on a mission specifically to try it out that afternoon. Excitedly, I took a few quick photos in that very brief moment and hoped that at least one would come out okay. Luckily one photo did come out well which is shown above. I was so pleased, especially as such a sighting and photo opportunity like this was apparently quite rare. - Steve Gurney
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I like the joke Conrad :D We dont have these in Australia, nice looking creatures :)
a weasel is weasily recognized, a stoat is stoatally different
Thanks Elen. And thanks for the amusing story. I agree, it’s great when you have a close encounter like that and it can feel quite sureal.
Lucky you, Steve, and a great picture. We had a stoat come by the pond in the garden last month. She too stopped and looked at me from a couple of feet away then shot off through the grass to glare at the cat. Cat thought about pouncing … I told her “Don’t even think about it! That lady has buck rabbits bigger than you for breakfast!” Cat sensibly decided to wash :-. Unfortunately I had no camera by me at the time.
Absolutely gorgeous when a wild creature will come this close.
All my wildlife photos are in my head so no chance of that haha.
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