User:Paul.Miners

' Have just today watched a male stoat in my garden some time after 11 in the morning, first spotted at the base of one of our old apple trees, this tree is hollow in parts and host to coal tits, who have raised several broods for several years. this stoat climbed the tree inspected the various in and out doors the birds use and then head down decended the tree, too early for the usual inhabitents to be there. I first thought this was a squirrell but through binoculars was able to positivley identify ( with the help of a black tip tail ) the first stoat I have ever seen in the wild let alone my garden. I live in East Anglia, in a woodland and farm area.