Well...
I thought about making my first "mammal of the day" post, something about the bottle-nose dolphins that often swim up our local drainage ditch, or the wildebeest that sweep majestically across the recreation ground behind our house every morning...!
Yeah... Ok pal, I know its not a stoat (I wish), in fact I wish it could be anything else but this....
My first mammal of the day is.....
(drum roll purlease...)
A RAT!

This one (and its brethren no doubt) enjoy a comfortable living in our compost heap right now.
I know they get their bad press, on WAB too, recently, but they are surely the evolutionary kings of the mammalian world.
Watch the feature length video (well, 4 seconds anyway

), shot this afternoon using the video mode on the stills camera - by clicking
HERE.
From little acorns....
Doug.