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Originally Posted by jamie1976  hi just a new member last week me and my work mate watched a stoat dragging rats from there holes on a water treatment site it was brilliant to see ,so much power in these things it was no more than 10 foot away it new we were there but it was so involved in getting its prey it let us stand there ,fantastic site ill never forget it |
hmmmm are you sure it was a stoat and not a mink? Stoats do prospect around rat or vole burrows but they usually run away from people whereas a mink will often ignore you. I also can't help but hope it was brown rats and not the increasingly rare water vole?