We had a new visitor in the garden this morning. Sat drinking a cuppa before heading down the M6 for another trip down to Mum and Dad, a weasel suddenly appeared.
Having spent about 5 or 10 minutes in and out of the wall round the pond, suddenly it appeared with a (dead) bank vole! This was carried back across the garden, to the back of the shed where we think they are nesting. We can only assume that there is a family to feed as it then came back another 5 times (while we were still at home anyway) and collected what must have been the rest of the bank vole family. Our assumption is that he/she had gone into the wall and found the bank voles nest, killed them all and then carried them one by one back home for their own small family.
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| Just look how small the weasel is. The Bank Vole is barely bigger than a woodmouse. |
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| With a baby Bank Vole! |
