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I do hope this isn't just a cat...

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That looks foxy to me but it isn't necessarily the same beast as last time.  
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    It still looks like a Pine Marten to me, head shape and tail all look good.

    Legs look too short for fox in my opinion, though I have been spectacularly wrong before.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    head and throat look Pine Marten to me, although I haven't seen one for a few years.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • februarysgirlfebruarysgirl Posts: 835
    @CatDouch I'm not very happy with one of my hedgehogs at the moment. He was a complete AH to one who's been fervently building a nest in one of my houses for the last week. The other house is vacant, go f*****g sleep in there 😠
  • CatDouchCatDouch Posts: 488
    Hi @februarysgirl at this time of year male hedgehogs are full of testosterone and are either being aggressive to other males or attempting to mate with females.  I saw 2 males fighting the other evening on my wildlife camera and it was very noisy and aggressive but that’s nature I suppose!
    South Devon 
  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    CatDouch said:
    Hi @februarysgirl at this time of year male hedgehogs are full of testosterone and are either being aggressive to other males or attempting to mate with females.  I saw 2 males fighting the other evening on my wildlife camera and it was very noisy and aggressive but that’s nature I suppose!
    I never realised they had such good balance.
    Sunny Dundee
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Thanks everyone for your comments about our visitor.  I wish he'd visit when it wasn't dark so we'd get a better picture...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I think that's a pine marten too. Fantastic if it is @Liriodendron, especially if they're rare over there.  :)
    It's like the KitKat pandas though - he'll wait until you're out, then he'll be all over the garden and looking in the windows, and disappear as soon as you come back up the drive...  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It's a puzzle @Liriodendron.   Short little legs but a pointy nose and bushy tail.  The white throat could be either.

    Have a look at this video from a feeding station in Scotland - makes me think yours is a pine marten - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0m9zo_vOZY  
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
     :D  @Fairygirl ...

    They are rare if you take Ireland as a whole, but as in Scotland, there are pockets where they're much more common.  The lady who supplies our free-range eggs, at a farm about half a mile from here, had to give up last year because a pine marten was predating her chickens.  I think she's now got a bullet-proof run for them because she's back selling eggs.

    I'm not sure what a pine marten would be looking for in this garden - though I understand rats are a favourite food...   :)  
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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