baby stoat

This baby stoat is one of seven raised in my garden this year.

Their mother Bandita is well known to me - and to many in the world after she featured in a BBC Natural World documentary: Weasels: Feisty and Fearless.

I have followed the secret lives of stoats for many years and am always fascinated to see how playful these creatures are.

This trampoline is next to the climbing frame I built for my kids to play on, but now has been taken over by wildlife.

The stoat kits regularly use it to bounce on. They seem to enjoy the feel of the fabric too and often rub their bellies over it!!