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Today; badger sized but ginger with small ears and a bob tail. Quite rotund and had short legs with some white on them. Now, been up the hills all my life and have never seen anything like that. It looked like a wolverine to be honest. It went to a steep burn with bush cover.
A haggis😁
ginger with small ears and a bob tail. Quite rotund and had short legs with some white on them
Common Glaswegian
aren't they all
How many whiskies beforehand?
Meercat,Polecat or a Martin that likes Pine 🙂
Scottish Ginger Badger, obvs.
Was it riding a Fatbike?
A brafur? They're often seen fighting with badgers...
Escaped wolverine?
They've got them in the Highland Wildlife Park
https://www.highlandwildlifepark.org.uk/news/article/15944/wolverine-kits-out-and-about-/
How short legs?
Short as a badgers?
Lucky escape if it had a jar of honey,they are well ard.
Pine Marten, cute little vicious bastards
Cairngorms? If so I reckon pine marten
Nicola Sturgeon
This fella?
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Kintail, Wolverine was my first thought but didn't see how any could have escaped without it being public. White patches on belly as well. Short legs, didn't run with much animal grace; lots of movement for not much speed. Too chunky for a pine Martin which I have seen.
Pine Marten, cute little vicious bastards
While they’re the same family, a Marten is a fraction of the size of a badger! No way could they possibly be confused for one another, a Marten could possibly squeeze through a letterbox, a badger would more likely kick the door down.
S****.
I beg to differ on size - I've seen a couple of Pine Martin's that were rather large - one at Carron Valley, one in Glen Clova.
We've got badgers round here (Brissle) that are dirty gingery like that.
American badger? Ive seen pics of red coloured ones.
Could it be a reddish earth-stained eurasian badger? Dunno if thats possible, from my experience of highland soil it tends to be dark.
Doubt its a polecat, have seen a few run over i dividuals this week,they are a very slender, graceful animal, and quite a dark coat Also got a good length tail.
Not so outlandish to suggest a suposedly foreign animal. My mother woke up to find an escaped capybara in her garden once.
Badgers are nocturnal though, it was at 1pm.
Wonder if it could have been a Martin heavily pregnant? But the colour, tail and body shape was wrong. And I could see it running through the grass/ heather which was longish. HUGE heard of goats there as well.
Probably a weasel or a stoat.
Or make an escapee mink from a fur coat factory.
Probably a weasel or a stoat.
A badger size is way bigger than them though. I would probably go for an odd coloured badger.
Was thinking maybe a muntjac or a water deer but as far as I am aware they arent in the highlands and doesnt really meet the short legs standard (when compared to a badger).
From gregsd's link it was an otter.
Otter? Really threw me the first one I saw in the dark. Seen several since
EDIT, guess I should have refreshed my feed before replying 🙂
I wouldnt have associated an otter with "bob tail".
Badgers are nocturnal though, it was at 1pm.
Generally yes but they can be active during the data.
Probably a weasel or a stoat.
Nah, ones Weasley recognised and the other is stoatally different.
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Generally yes but they can be active during the data.
Must have been a panda then!
Without wishing to be too nonplussed - if someone is looking to ident an animal the size of a badger, and you think it might be a weasel, you should probably keep your thoughts to yourself.
Your animal doesn't sound anything like a resident - it must surely be an escapee?
What’s a brafur?
Wahey! I thought you'd never ask... 🤣
Must have been a panda then!
Ooops!
Apart from the tail it sounds like a beaver.
I discounted beaver because there is nothing for a beaver to eat there and I could see the tail quite clearly, it started reasonably close and I stopped and watched it. Never stopped running even when it had distanced me then went up the glen side into where a burn cut the hill with a couple of scrubby trees. It was on the path off Ciste Dubh,lots of water but the main burn is no more than 4 feet at its widest.
I beg to differ on size – I’ve seen a couple of Pine Martin’s that were rather large – one at Carron Valley, one in Glen Clova
Agreed, And while i fully agree they aren't anywhere even near the size of a badger they are definitely not big enough to fit through a letterbox! And they fall into the "thats a hella big,odd looking animal" category.
They can also appear quite fluffy which makes them look kinda chubby and squat.
Thats my position on the matter. Its a bit of a stretch that it actually is a pine arten though I'll admit i didn't really read the OP that thoroughly to start with.
Have a picture of a baby pine marten I found on the internet to show no hard feelings.
They can also appear quite fluffy which makes them look kinda chubby and squat.
Must remember, I am fluffy, not fat....
Ginger/grubby badger.
A ginger one might not be that odd, I once saw a tabby fox and there's plenty of green pheasants about
Not The Badger.
As Haggis has already been suggested then I’ll submit…..
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A young Muntjac
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I have seen ginger badgers before. I had a very similar encounter with a badger at about 700m altitude in the bowl at the top of the Allt Ruadh, Glen Feshie, when we disturbed a badger at close range and it bolted, then did not stop. Pretty ungainly in deep heather. The two idiots on mountain bikes weren't doing any better...
Is the muntjac on it’s holidays in Scotland?
If you check this map from the UK mammal org. You’ll see there are indeed reported pockets of muntjac in Scotland……
However, it’s also widely believed amongst certain demographics that this is down to mis-identification, false reporting or even practical jokers dropping off carcasses at roadsides as a bit of a wheeze.
even practical jokers dropping off carcasses at roadsides as a bit of a wheeze.
Some people are right jokers.
Oh how they must have laughed!
Well I saw a muntjac 2 actually on the m6 on Thursday maybe hutch hiking.
Legs too short, I am going with ginger badger as it couldn't be a wolverine. Just the weirdest thing. I have been mooching about the Highlands and wild camping for a long time and have never seen anything like it.
However, it’s also widely believed amongst certain demographics that this is down to mis-identification, false reporting or even practical jokers dropping off carcasses at roadsides as a bit of a wheeze.
Yeah seems very unlikely that there’d be no sightings until those small pockets, I have heard they’re appearing further north but certainly not Scotland.
Well I saw a muntjac 2 actually on the m6 on Thursday maybe hutch hiking.
Nah, that would be a rabbit, surely?
stretched rabbit?
Lots of flat rabbits on the m6.
The deer where around again today so it's not those in Scotland.
A young Muntjac
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Aware this is now old but just stopped in at Cross keys in Ettrickbridge and by the first is a stuffed white/ginger badger...
I'm hoping it is stuffed as I'm not planning on sharing any food or drink with it.