On the look-out for polecats
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| 08:41 UK time, Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Update, 13.30: Leave your polecat sightings on the Springwatch site - not here!
Springwatch presenter Simon King has been inundated since asking on last night's programme for your reports of polecat sightings, including several in NE Wales.
Harrishawker1 writes: "I have seen 2 wild polecats in the last six months whilst out working the ferrets for the hawks. The first one was living in a rabbit waren and tried to attack the ferret we were working outside the hole. This was near Abergele. The second one was on the sand dunes doing the same near Gronant, Prestatyn, whilst out hawking.
"We also have a friend who lost a ferret whilst out in the fields near Prestatyn and he found it six weeks later whilst walking the dog but the twist is the ferret gave birth to kits a week later and they all have the markings of wild polecats."
Meanwhile, BusterHarding points out that polecats aren't necessarily the shy and retiring type: "We saw a polecat running across the Rhuddlan road in Rhyl!"
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I live in Orby near Skegness (PE23 5SW) backing onto woodland. I saw a polecat twice within a fortnight mid-summer.
Josie
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Just returned from College Lake Bucks where we spent 45 mins watching 4 delightful young Polecats from a hide at a distance of 10 ft.
I believe Springwatch has already been contacted by the warden there.
I managed 1 short video and 1 decent photo which I've already uploaded onto your site. Dave C
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A fortnight ago I saw a polecat running across the road ahead of me. It stopped for a split second to look at me then ran into the hedgerow. This was very near Wallingford in Oxfordshire.
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Hi, Please continue to post your sightings on the Springwatch site! This page was being used to highlight some sightings in this locality [NE Wales] and which had been mentioned on Springwatch.
We didn't mean to confuse you!
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Last year my father caught a polecat in a rat cage, he set it free and it ran across the fields. We live in a little village near Wrexham. North Wales.
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6 June 2009
We have just seen what we think is a dead polecat on the Hampshire Wiltshire borders: road kill on the road from West Dean to West Tytherley near a place called South Lodge (Pathfinder series maps 1263 OS Ref 234286.
Photographs were taken if needed. Length: nose to root of tail 44 cms; tail 20 cms. What made us think it is a polecat is the mixture of black and yellowy russet body with black tip to tail and black legs with strong-clawed paws. His mask was not as pronounced as some of the photographs on the Springwatch website but definitely present. The area is dairy farming bordering on extensive forested areas (Bentley Wood).
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I live in kidderminster Worcestershire i have two polecat living under my decking unfortunately i also keep chickens and they eaten all my frogs too.
I dont know what to do about this, I have 3 young children would they be safe playing in the garden?
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Polecat in our garden last weekend, Tremadog Gwynedd
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