Breakfast visitor

[Marc St Louis]

We had a new visitor at the bird fat this morning and he was frantic.

















The pictures are actually taken in reverse order with the top pictures taken at the end.  He got himself into trouble when he got inside the netting, he couldn't find his way back out.  He was frantic before but when he couldn't find the way out he got really frantic

[bjrogg]

That’d be a lot more entertaining than watching birds Marc., but I’m guessing the birds don’t like him. Well maybe the big ones would. Did you have to let him out?
That could certainly get exciting.
Bjrogg

[WhistlingBadger]

That's hilarious, Marc!  Can't wait to show this to my daughter.   Did he finally get free?

[PEARL DRUMS]

Its hungry season and that bag of fat is perfect for that little meat eater. Cools pics, Marc.

[Marc St Louis]

It was incredible how fast he would move.  Sometimes he would be so frantic that when he would jump from the window frame he would just miss and land in the snow.  My wife took most of the pictures but she couldn't take any when he was trapped because she said she was frightened for him.  It took him a bout 15 second but he finally managed to get out.

[BrianS]

Very cool pictures. Thank you for posting them.

[JW_Halverson]

Apparently, he weaseled his way out of the situation.

[Chief RID]

Pop goes the.........  I could not resist.

[BowEd]

That's a good one JW and Chief.Good pictures too Marc.They are persistent are'nt they....Ha Ha.

[bjrogg]

15 seconds would seem like a eternity to that little Wessel. They never sit still. I’m guessing that won’t be the last time you see him.
Bjrogg

[DC]

Cool pics Marc. It's nice to see how big they actually are. Nature shows use so many close-ups that you never get a true indication of size. Weasels do live on The Island but I don't know if I've ever seen one. They are small.

[JW_Halverson]

I remember seeing a disembodied rooster pheasant head bobbing down a snowy ditch one Deember in North Dakota. I turned around, drove back, making sure I was not hallucinating. Sure enough, no pheasant body, just the head. And it was bopping down the ditch!

I jumped out of the vehicle  and when I got close enough I could see it was a winter phase weasel carrying the pheasant head! Being in his white winter phase, he was well camouflaged against the snow.

[Marc St Louis]

He was back at lunch time but he stayed on the ground/snow picking up what was down there, I guess he was too traumatized

[DC]

Fool me once.........

[WhistlingBadger]

We saw one up in the mountains once when we were cross-country skiing.  It was carrying a dead vole.  When it saw us, it showed no fear, but dropped the vole and very deliberately looked us over.  It was almost as if it were sizing us up as potential prey.  After a few seconds, it appeared to think, "Nah, not worth the fight," picked up its vole and went on its way.