These few days between Christmas and New Year are an opportunity to look back over the past 12 months and pick out a few favourite videos. Stoats were regular visitors to the garden in the early part of the year but haven't been seen recently. On one exciting day in March two stoats visited in the same morning only 10 minutes apart. The second one was paler with partial ermine colouring and was noticeably smaller - the first was a male and the second female. Neither went into the box to trigger the inside camera but instead they both turned round in the entrance and came out again. I think the male must have left a scent mark because the female was distracted by it as she came out.
Most times the stoats are almost too quick for the cameras. The last video puts together a few very short clips of a stoat or stoats in slow motion.
The cameras haven't seen a stoat since April but I am hoping there will be more in 2025.
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