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05-06-2010, 02:09 PM
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| | | ? |Albino Ferret
Does Anyone know what animal this is? Seen on the Isle of Mull May 2010. Was very comfortable swimming in the sea. Looks like an albino ferret.   |
05-06-2010, 02:34 PM
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| | | Re: ? |Albino Ferret
Hi Rosemary,
I wonder if it the same animal as this one Albino Mink, Polecat or Ferret? |
06-06-2010, 05:10 PM
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| | | Re: ? |Albino Ferret
I believe that this is the same animal. I photographed it at Grasspoint Mull a few weeks ago. It looked like it was busy building a nest of seaweed in among the rocks.
From your post, I guess the general consensus is that it is an albino mink. |
06-06-2010, 08:16 PM
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| | | Re: ? |Albino Ferret
Ermine. Stoat in winter pelage.
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06-06-2010, 08:31 PM
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| | | Re: ? |Albino Ferret
I thought they had black tips to the tails. I'm only going on the house of lords, Lord & Lady fa la la pondesby-smythe's paraphanalia! 
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07-06-2010, 05:00 PM
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| | | Re: ? |Albino Ferret
Wouldn't it be a bit late in the year for a stoat in ermine?
Ferrets arent really known for their love of fishing either , but I suppose one could learn if that was a good source of food?
Mink are known to fish and swim aren't they.
It's a lovely looking animal either way and I think you are lucky to have seen it
(you can get albino Polecats too!) |
07-06-2010, 06:39 PM
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| | | Re: ? |Albino Ferret
if it was swimming in the sea I'd say mink, most ferrets don't like water.
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08-06-2010, 11:44 AM
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| | | Re: ? |Albino Ferret
Hey yeah looks like it should be a mink.
A friend of mine managed to pick up a albino ferret the other day, just running down the side of a busy road, quite tame so guessing it was someones pet.... |
08-06-2010, 12:53 PM
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| | | Re: ? |Albino Ferret
I too saw an animal very similar to the one in the photograph, just this morning. I assumed it to be a stoat in its winter coat, although might I ask how long they can retain such coats? Today is after all June 6th!
The animal was swimming away from me on the surface, alongside a bed of reeds at Sale Water Park, Manchester. Quite a large animal, and I did think initially, as have others, that it could have been a ferret. Or an albino stoat. It was very white indeed. Unable to see the tip of the tail due to the water. An albino mink is, I suppose, another possibility.
Too slow to get the camera out of the bag of course before it disappeared. The grebes looked alarmed.
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08-06-2010, 10:14 PM
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| | | Re: ? |Albino Ferret
Hi
Im intruiged by these sightings, especially the 2010 one. I have caught 3 albino mink in the past year as part of a mink removal project. As far as I can tell, ferrets/polecats still show the distinctive "bandit" mask as a faint ghost around the face, even in albino forms. Mink never show this form in albinism as it is not part of their 'normal' pelage. Although, unless you are up close this is going to be almost impossible to distinguish. Given the acquatic nature of its location, i'd say very likely mink.
I am always looking for mink sightings in the the north of Scotland, and a collegue is working on the west coast, also looking for reports of mink, particualty further north!
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