Stoat animal

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I was heading back from southern Colorado on Sunday, and chanced across three great photo opps involving white wildlife. The first spot was at the south boat ramp at Antero Reservoir, where some buddies of mine had been seeing Snow Buntings on and off for a few days. These are tough birds to find in Colorado, and they seemed to have reasonable site fidelity at this spot, so I was hopeful to get the chance to photograph them. Still, they weren't there for over an hour on my first attempt…

One of the highlights of this past winter has been the apparently high number of stoats in ermine on show around the region. The onset of an early winter and the huge amount of snow we had during November and December obviously triggered their annual moult to a larger degree than normal as stoats in ermine were being seen almost everywhere. This prompted some to say there was a plague of these smart little beasts but in reality it was just that they stood out like a sore thumb especially…