{"id":2368,"date":"2012-08-21T23:08:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T22:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2368"},"modified":"2013-11-03T22:06:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T22:06:46","slug":"stoat-badgers-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/stoat-badgers-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoat! Badgers! Fox!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A good day all said and done, starting with a (s)totally unexpected sighting first thing this morning. I had just arrived at the pond and glanced over the wall into the churchyard. A dash of movement caught my eye. A stoat! It was romping in and out of the bushes near the wall pausing just often enough for me to get a few shots. hard to beleive that this tiny agile creature is classified as part of the same family as the slow, lumbering badger.  They are both mustelids.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/stoat_2108126889.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/stoat_2108126895.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/stoat_2108126897.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/stoat_2108126919.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As for the identification (and why it&#39;s not its close cousin, a weasel), that&#39;s simple&#8230;.  (old joke alert!!!!)&#8230;.  A weasel is weasily recognized while a stoat is stoatally different! (groan).  <\/p>\n<p>Actually they are quite easy to tell apart, if you can see their tail. The stoat has a black tip to the tail. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>The badger is at the other end of the mustelid size scale, and sure enough one of the regular young badgers was in the garden again this evening. With a fox. As luck would have it, the fox moved away as soon as I spotted them, and I was only able to get photos of one followed by the other.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/badger_2108127003.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fox_shy_boy_2108127006.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/badger_2108127014.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/badger_2108127016.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Plus one lucky shot. Look who&#39;s crept back into shot behind the bush. \ud83d\ude00<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/badger_fox_2108127017.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Finally, as though all that wasn&#39;t enough, I&#39;ve just got my first photo of one of the adult badgers. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/badger_adult_2108127029.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Camera note: stoat shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. badgers and foxes photographed with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[994,4,1023,3],"tags":[160,1128,428],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badger-wildlife","category-foxes","category-stoat-wildlife","category-wildlife","tag-badger-2","tag-fox","tag-stoat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}