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2836. arkymalarky - 3/30/2005 11:41:46 PM m 2837. Macnas - 3/31/2005 7:39:22 AM I think, but I'll have to look it up, that stoats are very closely related to weasels, ermine and mink. All mustelids, if my memory serves me right. I think the badger is among that group as well.
I cannot say as to how bad a stoats odour might be, as I have never been that close to one. But I do know that ferrets, particularly male ferrets (called a hob) can stink to high heaven. We used to keep ferrets when I was a boyeen:
Thats a working albino ferret, about to flush a rabbit to the waiting lurcher. I have thoughts that when I retire I'll rear some and relive my youth. 2838. alistairconnor - 3/31/2005 9:40:44 AM I saw a ferret the other day, crossing the road. I think it's the first one I've seen.
Though it could have been a stoat. I didn't ask him.
(anyway I can't think of the French for stoat.)
Old but lame :
What's the difference between a weasel and a stoat? 2839. alistairconnor - 3/31/2005 10:13:41 AM ... one of them's weasily distinguished...
... and ... 2840. Ronski - 4/3/2005 4:04:23 AM The spring thaw:
 2841. Ronski - 4/3/2005 3:35:40 PM That was yesterday. Today, the rain has turned to wet snow. 2842. Ronski - 4/3/2005 4:42:08 PM The aforementioned wet snow:
 2843. jayackroyd - 4/3/2005 4:43:23 PM And we're playing baseball tonight at 8 pm. Idiots. 2844. Ronski - 4/3/2005 7:08:42 PM Ground squirrel, in tree.
 2845. Magoseph - 4/3/2005 7:43:06 PM 
My son just sent this picture, which he took this morning--he has a new program and I haven't learned yet how to resize before transfer to Shutterfly.
2846. alistairConnor - 4/3/2005 10:08:35 PM ... and the other's stoatily different
(in case you were wondering) 2847. Macnas - 4/4/2005 9:31:55 AM Not really no. 2848. Magoseph - 4/4/2005 10:30:57 AM In the last picture above, what type of bird is the one in the middle? 2849. Ronski - 4/4/2005 11:56:43 AM Looks like male house finch. 2850. thoughtful - 4/4/2005 3:17:42 PM I always have trouble telling the purple finch from the house finch.
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 2851. ronski - 4/4/2005 3:28:57 PM The purple has more coloring and deeper coloring. In the photo, the one on the right is clearly a female house finch, which has a broken-striped belly.
The one of the left is harder to discern; maybe a sparrow. 2852. ronski - 4/4/2005 3:29:21 PM No, I think it too is a female house finch. 2853. thoughtful - 4/4/2005 6:04:59 PM most likely since they travel in bunches
maybe i've not seen a male purple finch and that's why i can't tell them apart.
just like with our downey woodpeckers... I was busy debating if they were downey or hairy until the hairy woodpecker came to visit. The size was stunningly different and I've never confused them again.
2854. Ronski - 4/5/2005 12:26:35 AM Last light:
 2855. Magoseph - 4/5/2005 12:37:20 PM Thank you, Ronski and thoughtful--there's a place on my son's property where the migrating birds stay a couple of days, hundreds of them- lots of grain for his birdfeeders, he says.
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