Which animal did I just see??

[abigailthespiderinthehat]

Was driving by a small forest area and I had to slow down to avoid running over two very small animals. They were red and long and skinny. Almost like a fluffy pipe cleaner on legs! Any ideas what they could be?

Is this in the UK. Weasel.

Weasel ?

weasel?

Weasel or a stoat

Stoat or a weasel maybe?

Yes in the Uk. Off to google pictures of weasels. They were very tiny....

Red squirrel ? Where are you ?

Scotland

You'll be able to tell the difference. One's weaselly identified. The other's stoatally different.

Baby weasel😁

Sounds like a weasel. I saw one and a stoat just recently. From what I saw they appear to have pretty regular runs (rat runs) like a lot of animals. Saw the weasel 3 different evenings coming through same farm gate to cross the lane. You might be lucky and see them again.
Pipe cleaner. That made me lol. Good description.

Might be Pine Martens if youre in Scotland

How can I have got to 41 years of age and never seen a weasel?? I'm assuming that's they must have been... wish I'd got a better look, they were pretty fast!

Pine marten?

@KitMarlowesCodpieceOfthigh You're hilarious!!! 🤣🤣🤣

I’m older and spend a lot of time on rough country mine was a first too.
I thought they moved a lot like a mouse - fast and glide y almost like a Fleeting shadow.
Brill !

www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2018/06/pine-marten-facts/

Gorgeous bouncy little snake cats.

Voracious little bastards as well.

If you find videos of the babies playing in gardens, you won't come back here unless it's to witter on about how adorable they are.

@toomuchpeppapig THANK YOU. No one else on this thread has appreciated my comedic genius

kit don’t get your coat just yet. I too laughed but was too wrapped up in wittering on about MY experience to acknowledge it.
I’ll get my coat (unseemly tussle at coat stand).

@KitMarlowesCodpieceOfthigh I did but I just had to google pine marten because I’d only vaguely heard of them and assumed they were it’s, like house martins. So, I don’t know if you want my appreciation

Stupid autocorrect it’s was meant to say birds

Oh that’s interesting that a bird and a mammal are both martins ! Never thought about that before. Off to google ‘Martin’.

Obviously a little haggis!!

@HeronLanyon ones a Martin and the other a marten. Just to confuse further.