Mammals Mouse Weasel in our Garden here in Germany

[Lance Chennault]

Was able to capture this little guy in our Garden catching 2 mice... Pretty cool.
Sony A1
Sony 200-600mm G OSS Lens
ISO 6400 (Denoised in Topaz Photo AI)
f/6.3
600mm (200 for the first photo)
1/1000th sec

 

[Unframed Dave]

Cool, I notice in the title you refer to it as a weasel and in the photos a stoat. I'd say that is a weasel, the stoat has a longer tail, the tip of which is black.

Happy to be corrected though.

 

[Lance Chennault]

Cool, I notice in the title you refer to it as a weasel and in the photos a stoat. I'd say that is a weasel, the stoat has a longer tail, the tip of which is black.

Happy to be corrected though.

You are correct Dave....when I saved the photos...I thought it was a Stoat...then was corrected on a FB Page and did some research... in the 3rd photo, you can see that the tail is very short and brown, thus a Mouse Weasel. I am so grateful you noticed this . thank you for responding.

 

[Tim Mayo]

Great shot and what a cute little guy, unless you find him chewing the cables under your bonnet one day!

 

[Lance Chennault]

Great shot and what a cute little guy, unless you find him chewing the cables under your bonnet one day!

Tim, Hopefully that won't happen, I thought that the Pine Martens did that....we have one of those around as well. They are huge....only come out at night and eat what is in our Bird feeder

 

[AllardR]

I thought that the Pine Martens did that

Nice photo 's. So cute that weasel. Although it's a killer. In the nearby Netherlands the Beech/Stone Marten is notorious for such cable action. In our former home in the Netherlands our peacocks were killed by most probably such an animal. They are protected! If such an animal houses under your roof, you will have to live with it!

 

[Lance Chennault]

Nice photo 's. So cute that weasel. Although it's a killer. In the nearby Netherlands the Beech/Stone Marten is notorious for such cable action. In our former home in the Netherlands our peacocks were killed by most probably such an animal. They are protected! If such an animal houses under your roof, you will have to live with it!

Allard, it is amazing what these little hunters will take down. Pretty impressive to say the least, they aren't afraid of anything. And they are super quick