Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Month: July 2020

  • What’s the difference between a stoat and a weasel?

    What’s the difference between a stoat and a weasel?

    Traditionally there has always been widespread killing of both types of mustelids by gamekeepers. ‘Vermin’ control, they call it. On the moors and open countryside, it is generally stoats, weasels preferring woods and hedgerows. But there is considerable overlap in their ranges. The traps used are spring traps, of which the best-known is the Fenn…