Just discovered that Lochbroom Woodfuels in #Ullapool have a rarely used twitter account give them a thanks/like for this fab photo at @LWoodfuels
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Baby Stoats spotted on the road to Achiltibuie yesterday by the driver from Lochbroom Woodfuels. Too cute not to share...pic.twitter.com/XATgBKfcLp
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Don't send them to
#Orkney on their hollybobs whatever you do! We're just about to start an extermination programme to eliminate them & protect our bird life. Ruthless little blighters only appeared here on the islands in very recent past.
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Yikes, presumably they surfed over from Durness. We'll take them. Catch and release, just stick 'em on the Scrabster ferry...
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Will never really know but I'd guess they were introduced by a disgruntled (& misguided) farmer who may have been agrieved at a perceived high handed attitude sometimes displayed in the past by the RSPB in Orkney?
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Yep, we get that too. Still don't know how hedgehogs ended up on Uist...
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Hence the phrase "stoatin about" ?
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Stoaters...
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Saw one take down a crow on Fanore caravan site many years ago. Bird (big!) dragged underground -never even knew it'd been jumped. I sat there shocked rigid at the caravan window like the girl on the beach in Jaws who can't quite form the word 'shark'. "Sss.. sss...sssStoat!"
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Arf. If you scroll up through the comments there's a video of one hunting a rabbit ten times its size. It doesn't end well for fluffy.pic.twitter.com/kU5Dxa0qsP
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They were safely moved?
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They were.
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LET ME CLEAR MY STOAT
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Weasels, stoats are stoatally different.
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Weaselly told apart.
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Apparently not.
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I choose the smaller one in front - it's the lesser of two weasels.
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Are they not baby Pine Martens? I don't know, cant tell the difference between Stoats, Weasels, Pine martens...Just thought that face and the white bib?
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I thought the same. They look like little baby Pine Martens to me.
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Me too - definitely pine martens. Super-cute though.
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I'm sticking with Stoats...Pine Marten's have a much narrower snout :) http://britishwildlifecentre.blogspot.com/2012/05/sybil-stoat.html …
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They're *very* young Stoats, black tail tip not yet developed. Pine Martens don't have a pale belly. These are too young to be out of the nest, mother must've been moving them (they often do).
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Is there a word for baby stoats? Stoatlets, stoateens, or just boring old Pups.
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*really hopes it's stoatlets*
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