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On the hunt - weasel and prey set
Lens: DA*300/4 Camera: K7 Photo Location: Isle Verte, Québec ISO: 1000 Shutter Speed: 1/1000s Aperture: F4.5 
Posted By: jpzk, 07-02-2012, 04:27 PM

This is a series of 5 shots taken with the Pentax K7, at high (relatively) ISO = 1000.
It was a rainy, windy, cold day on a dirt road along the St Lawrence River in Eastern Québec.
The IQ of the shots is "acceptable" only, but I thought of sharing this moment with you.















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07-02-2012, 05:36 PM   #2
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Wow. That's awfully big prey compared to the killer. Fascinating photos. Thanks for posting these.
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I'm thinking that it is probably a stoat.
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Cool! Well worth you're getting wet! (he wrote from the comfort of his study ;~)

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Thanks so much for sharing these. Interesting to see him trying to carry off prey that is almost the same size.
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QuoteOriginally posted by sealonsf Quote
Wow. That's awfully big prey compared to the killer. Fascinating photos. Thanks for posting these.
Weasels can take down full grown rabbits about 10x their mass.

They exhaust the rabbit by chasing it, then clamber on its back and severe the spinal cord immobilizing it. Weasels have the teeth to do so.

They also have the strength to drag animals much larger than themselves considerable distances, as in more than 100 metres!

Phenomenally successful hunters.
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Really cool action sequence.

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We always know when the weasel in our case a martin, has spent a couple days near our property... all the chipmunks and squirrels have disappeared and he always leaves a tidy little pile of poop on top of the sand pile. I saw on echoing a rabbit once on a decommissioned logging road near us. They ran off into the woods to fast for me to get a picture.
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Wow. That's awfully big prey compared to the killer. Fascinating photos. Thanks for posting these.
Thanks for the comment, sealonsf.

Surprising indeed!

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I'm thinking that it is probably a stoat.
I am not sure whether a "stoat" is the English way to name a "weasel" but, searching a bit on Google makes me believe that it is the same animal?

One thing for sure: they are not the farmers' best friends as they are reported to enter a chicken coop and do a mess with animals many times their own size!

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Cool! Well worth you're getting wet! (he wrote from the comfort of his study ;~)
Thanks !

Wet it was and we have been having some less than decent weather around here lately.
I notice that it is usually during those "bad days" that I get surprised with a few finds such as those.

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Weasels can take down full grown rabbits about 10x their mass.

They exhaust the rabbit by chasing it, then clamber on its back and severe the spinal cord immobilizing it. Weasels have the teeth to do so.

They also have the strength to drag animals much larger than themselves considerable distances, as in more than 100 metres!

Phenomenally successful hunters.
I knew they could hunt larger animals ... but in the case of rabbits !! That is one huge difference in size!

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Really cool action sequence.
Thanks !!

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We always know when the weasel in our case a martin, has spent a couple days near our property... all the chipmunks and squirrels have disappeared and he always leaves a tidy little pile of poop on top of the sand pile. I saw on echoing a rabbit once on a decommissioned logging road near us. They ran off into the woods to fast for me to get a picture.
Aren't "martens" bigger than weasel?
The only time I saw one of these was on trip back from Hearst, Ontario (where we lived for a few years) going to Ottawa via Hwy 11.
That was near (at Marian Lake) the actual "Marten River Provincial Park" ... of all places!

But whether it is a weasel or a marten ... they are pretty good at making a mess where they go!

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QuoteOriginally posted by jpzk Quote
I am not sure whether a "stoat" is the English way to name a "weasel" but, searching a bit on Google makes me believe that it is the same animal?

One thing for sure: they are not the farmers' best friends as they are reported to enter a chicken coop and do a mess with animals many times their own size!

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Stoat is just another an,e for the short-tailed weasel. Ermine is another name for the same animal.
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