A Weasel encounter

 Overnight we have had another 3" of snow with snow still falling at lunchtime. No one else seemed to venture out in the snowy and icy conditions and so I was lucky enough to be the only person walking along the Nottingham canal today.

The bird!!! Not a brilliant photo

 I was trying to take a photo of a bird perched on a bullrush stalk when out of the corner of my eye I happened to notice a movement in the snow. So to see the weasel as it poked its head out of the snow was just brilliant. I had to stay very still for nearly 15 minutes to capture all these photo's and poor Jade must have been utterly fed up waiting by my side. I'm still not sure if this is a weasel. Apparently a Stoat is about the same size but has a black tip to its tail. As I couldn't see the tail I have assumed it to be a weasel.

It was certainly a good day to be out and about as my next photo opportunity came with what I initially thought to be a pigeon, turned out to be a Kestrel. Unfortunately I didn't have my telephoto lens attached to the camera so this was the best picture out of all those I took.

And then...... standing motionless on a gate post was this Shrew. I snapped away thinking how lucky I was that it hadn't moved........... and then it struck me. The shrew was dead!!!. Maybe it had been dropped by a bird and just happened to land on the post. Oh well. I'm still waiting to photograph my first fox but Ive ticked a few more furry creatures and birds of my list.