The weasel was either very hungry, very daring – or just very surprised. A photographer has snapped a weasel in flight, after its attempt to eat a woodpecker twice its size resulted in the bird taking off, weasel in tow.
The shot was taken this week when Martin Le-May was walking with his wife Ann through Hornchurch Country Park in East London. He was specifically on the lookout for green woodpeckers, when he realised a weasel had spotted one first.
“As we walked we heard a distressed squawking and I saw that flash of green,” he told reporters. “So hurriedly I pointed out to Ann the bird and it settled into the grass behind a couple of small silver birch trees. Both of us trained