Two Questions Relating To Countryside Animals
10 January 2004, 09:20 PM
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1) Which one is the following: Red/Brown in colour, about 10 inches long with a creamy chest from under its chin. Moves around in like a slinky hopping. Its either a Stoat or a Weasel but which? (Don't think its a ferret but I guess could be)
2) What animal (stoat, ferret, weasel or rat) actively digs up mole holes, presumably in the hope of hunting said mole?
Saw whatever it was in 1) lolopping around the garden a few days back. Then a mole arrived & proceeded to start diggin everywhere (nearly got the bugger). Then this morning, it was obvious that something had dug into mole city with the probable intention of hunting it.
Just interested & it might save me a mole hunt
2) What animal (stoat, ferret, weasel or rat) actively digs up mole holes, presumably in the hope of hunting said mole?
Saw whatever it was in 1) lolopping around the garden a few days back. Then a mole arrived & proceeded to start diggin everywhere (nearly got the bugger). Then this morning, it was obvious that something had dug into mole city with the probable intention of hunting it.
Just interested & it might save me a mole hunt
10 January 2004, 10:05 PM
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Both are a fox.
Look in your Yellow Pages for 'Fox Hunters'
Seeing where you come from, I'll let you off
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Good link.
It certainly is not a fox, I know what they look like & @ 10 times bigger, no possible confusion (sorry more for akshay's benefit ).
However, can't decide on stoat/weasel. I can't recall a dark tip to it's tail but it did do the zig-zag quatering thing in it's hunting. But although it says it hunts mamals, the impression got from the article was that the weasel was the tunnel hunter.
No mention of moles either as food
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Both are a fox.
Look in your Yellow Pages for 'Fox Hunters'
Seeing where you come from, I'll let you off
Hedgehog
Good link.
It certainly is not a fox, I know what they look like & @ 10 times bigger, no possible confusion (sorry more for akshay's benefit
).However, can't decide on stoat/weasel. I can't recall a dark tip to it's tail but it did do the zig-zag quatering thing in it's hunting. But although it says it hunts mamals, the impression got from the article was that the weasel was the tunnel hunter.
No mention of moles either as food
10 January 2004, 10:17 PM
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Only thing I can say is that in my experience, though I'm in Ireland and we don't have weasels so I'm not an expert, a weasel looks like a really very small animal while a stoat looks like something that could kill a rabbit.
Hardly scientific I know.
It is always the same, you see something, wonder what it is, get out a book and find that the vital identifying feature is the only thing you didn't notice :-)
Hardly scientific I know.
It is always the same, you see something, wonder what it is, get out a book and find that the vital identifying feature is the only thing you didn't notice :-)
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10 January 2004, 10:46 PM
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Ignore these bunch of townies and ask a local country boy
Stoats and weasels look very similar, apart from two things:
1) An adult stoat measures about 17", an adult weasel about 10", both including tail.
2) The easy way to tell them apart is that a stoat always has a black tip to its tail, a weasel doesn't.
Either can hunt underground and will pursue moles/rats/voles etc.
BTW, as was said there are no weasels in Ireland, but there *are* stoats, except they are called the weasel there..... - very Irish
[Edited by Dave T-S - 1/10/2004 10:49:39 PM]
Ignore these bunch of townies and ask a local country boy
Stoats and weasels look very similar, apart from two things:
1) An adult stoat measures about 17", an adult weasel about 10", both including tail.
2) The easy way to tell them apart is that a stoat always has a black tip to its tail, a weasel doesn't.
Either can hunt underground and will pursue moles/rats/voles etc.
BTW, as was said there are no weasels in Ireland, but there *are* stoats, except they are called the weasel there.....
- very Irish [Edited by Dave T-S - 1/10/2004 10:49:39 PM]
10 January 2004, 11:20 PM
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They are not known as weasels all over Ireland, in my part of Ireland the whole lot of them including mink etc. are known as "whitrix."
Actually, I'm not at all sure that's how you spell it as I've never seen it written down and I've no idea why the term is used but it would be in general everyday use.
It is interesting that we have a general term for such animals that seems to cover all of them and yet we only actually have one that is native, the stoat :-)
Actually, I'm not at all sure that's how you spell it as I've never seen it written down and I've no idea why the term is used but it would be in general everyday use.
It is interesting that we have a general term for such animals that seems to cover all of them and yet we only actually have one that is native, the stoat :-)
11 January 2004, 12:09 AM
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Nah - no horses in/near my garden...
We have thrushes, blackbirds, robins, wrens, housesparrows, grrenfinch, bullfinch, great tit, blue tit, spotted woodpecker, chaffinch, pheasant, rabbits, magpie, wood-pigeon, red-legged partridge, bulls, deer, monkjack, sheep, rats, weasels, moles, sparrow-hawks, jay, fieldfare & lots more besides
BUT NO POXY HORSES
We have thrushes, blackbirds, robins, wrens, housesparrows, grrenfinch, bullfinch, great tit, blue tit, spotted woodpecker, chaffinch, pheasant, rabbits, magpie, wood-pigeon, red-legged partridge, bulls, deer, monkjack, sheep, rats, weasels, moles, sparrow-hawks, jay, fieldfare & lots more besides
BUT NO POXY HORSES
11 January 2004, 04:59 AM
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your description makes it sound a little big for a fox and stoats do that funny running thing
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