The camera in the weasel box is there all the time, mostly recording wood mice. Last month there were five weasel visits, two each from two different animals and the fifth I can't tell. A male weasel I call weasel 4 was here on the 3rd and the 5th. The first time he was having a very good look round, probably able to smell the wood mice.
The next time he was dashing about more but I can still manage to identify him on freeze frames. There is a space behind the camera with a few spare bits of wood that he seemed to find very interesting.
The second weasel was a female, the same one who was first here in November. She also spent a lot of time behind the camera (I have edited most of it out) and it was interesting to see her scent-marking.
She was back a week later for another look round. I am really hoping she'll stick around and perhaps even move into the weasel wall.
A male weasel dashed in and out so fast on 31st that I can't be sure which it was - my best guess is weasel 4 again. Otherwise the camera mainly records wood mice, bank voles, the odd American grey squirrel, wrens and great tits.
The voles are interesting. Almost always I have been seeing bank voles but then this one turned up one night. It is large with a fairly short tail so it must be a field vole.
One very pleasing visitor was a pygmy shrew who has been in a few times, once in daylight.
I am hoping for many more weasel visits in 2025 and perhaps even a few stoats as well.
