Chicken_man 1,651 Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Found this on the track about 06:30 this morning! Wasn't there last thing at night! No cat's about puncture wounds small! Maybe another Stoat? Another predator? Mink? Would like to know! Atb 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
J Darcy 5,871 Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Owl. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chicken_man 1,651 Posted August 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Ah! Plenty of Tawny about. Thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Neal 1,891 Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 I have a photo somewhere of a stoat which I found directly outside a slightly dug out rabbit bury. I think, if memory serves me well that it was a single hole so I always presumed it was killed by a doe protecting her young. I can't remember the injuries so I'll have to take another look at it and compare them. That's what I love about natural history and hunting; you're never too old to learn something new. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
j j m 6,596 Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 An owl id think Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The one 8,544 Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 Looking at the spacing of the wounds some type of bird of prey over a cat etc 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Neal 1,891 Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 I checked my photo and it was a different injury. Mine was opened up from the belly button down (do stoats have belly buttons?) with the entrails laying next to it. Enjoy your breakfast. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chicken_man 1,651 Posted August 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Thanks for replying everyone :-) We have Tawny, Goshawk, Spar and Buzzards regularly around us. No cat's. Fox and Otter live here too. There was a family of 4 Stoat around us, they are up against it. Atb Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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