No Photo's .....

[Outlaw Pete 2,224]

So, of course, this never really happened! I'll just f**kin make it up then.

 

I'd just decide to take a stroll up to the road. See if a couple boxes of starling chicks were ready to ring yet.

 

Note; Starlings. Again. Already done them, look. So no need to take the f**king camera!!!

 

There I am then, bowling down the road. Singing away to myself. Not a care in the world. When I say to myself;

 

" Oh. Look at the mink! "

 

Because, just ahead of me, on the road, is what appears to be a mink. And it's running around with a black f**king ball rolling behind it?! I'm like; The f**k?!

 

Now, all this time I'm still walking, of course. I'm heading towards the mink and its ball as they're coming towards me.

 

That's how I got close enough to realise this was a pine marten, with a f**king blackbird running along behind it, giving it shit for, probably, just having emptied its nest!

 

With that, the piney hops into the hedge and I curse my luck for not having my little camera in my pocket.

 

Game over. Walk on. Only, the blackbird's now in the hedge that runs at a right angle from the road. Oh. In fact there's Two blackbirds. A blue tit. Oh! And, look! A beautiful female reed bunting! Bonus!

 

And, as I stand there, drinking in this lovely little bird, sat there twelve foot across the gateway in the shining sun .....

 

Out pops the f**king pine marten!!! F**king thing's come down a fence post, discarded partly in the hedge, and is looking up at me as much as to say, " What ....? "

 

Now, I'm a happy little soul. So, I look at this pine marten and say; " What are you up to? " Just like it's a f**king Dog.

 

And what does the f**ker do to that? It f**king comes towards me!!!!! :icon_eek:

 

So, now I'm looking over the hedge at a pine marten, six f**king foot from me. And looking up at me as if expecting a f**king treat!

 

Well, I'm not carrying any pine marten treats either, am I? So, I just say; " What's your game, pine marten? Come on then! "

 

And it runs forward, into 'my' hedge!!!!!

 

I'm beyond disbelief by now. I've seen Every f**king thing! So, there I am, bending down to peer into this hedge when I remember the squirrel video!

 

Sudden thoughts of a real, Wild pine marten leaping out and attaching itself to my face?! F**k That! I'm out of here!

 

And off I've gone, hurrying away!

 

 

 

 

[forest of dean redneck 11,735]

Catch it .always fancied one as a pet.

[Astanley 11,580]

Nice one Pete , It reminds me of a time a few years ago when I watched a weasel coming toward me on a path , oblivious to me it was doing that twisty ,side ways jumping , rolling about thing they do , it got within a couple of feet of me and then disappeared ,the mad thing was ,I had a camera with me , but I forgot to breath never mind take a photo .

[NEWKID 27,556]

Was on a school trip up in the Yorkshire dales, and I watched this mother weasel taking her young through a cattle grid, I'm there get all exited about it, my mates are saying, Kev your a geek lol..

Love moments like that Pete, it's so unexpected, I'd be the same as Stan though, to scared to move and ruin the moment even if in had a camera...

[beast 1,884]

nice story pete. some years ago i was walking home after work one evening across the meadows and stopped to watch a pair of stoats hunting. i gave a little squeak and they came dashing towards me at full speed, stopped about 10 feet away, looking for the source of the noise. i had been mucking out cattle sheds all day so my scent was pretty well masked, and as i was standing absolutely stock still, there was nothing to scare them. i gave another tiny squeak through my lips, and feck me if the pair of them didnt whip straight up my boot, up my trousers (the outside!!!) and start up my coat! all in less than a second! just time for me to shriek like a girl and send them both bolting off, and me standing there quite bemused. and as you said, NO CAMERA!!

[Hot Meat 3,109]

It's stuff like that that keeps me walking the land

[fireman 10,997]

Cracking yarn pete I was watching a badger one evening grunting about about 10 yards out in a field and after a while he winded me and turned towards me,i stood still and he started to walk towards me and i gave a little oi at him as he got a lot closer and all he did was break into a run at me and i jumped up onto a farm gate and the fecker ran straight underneath it,i wil confess to giving a second oi a tad louder than the first one when it got with a yard of me

[bryson 562]

last fathers day me and the kids went out for a drive we came round a bend to see a stoat on a rabbit i stopped the car and turned the engine off the stoat was not bothered by us at all we sat for a good 10 mins watching this battle for survival the kids were amazed at what they were seeing anyway a car came the opposite way and scared the stoat off the rabbit was left in the middle of the road doing back flips so i jumped out and dispatched it and put it in the grass where the stoat went in

i still say to people this was the best fathers day present ever

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

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