A Weasel?? What’s Next?

This afternoon, I got a text from Miranda who was leaving on her bike to go to work.

“There is a weasel in the front garden.”

I immediately went to go see with Ian. We were watching the garden, but it’s so big and bushy these days, anything could have been hiding. Then I saw one of the purple flowers move in a way that definitely was not the wind, and then there was a flash of a light brown back that disappeared. I said to Ian that I thought it was just the vole, but then the animal popped out into the open and it was clear that it was no vole. It was long, with a long neck, and looked like a light-brown ferret.

I started recording with my phone. The weasel was definitely hunting the vole, who scurried away.

Afterwards, I did a bit of Googling and found that it was a long-tailed weasel.