Photographer explains how he got THAT pic of a weasel riding a woodpecker
This image of a weasel hitching a ride on a green woodpecker is not Photoshopped, the photographer explained to us.
Obviously, it’s not like the weasel has actually stuck his thumb out and asked for a lift – he’s trying to kill the bird.
Martin LeMay told Metro: ‘It was a sunny afternoon, with the occasional cloud making the Hornchurch Country Park seem that grey-brown, dull winter colour even though it was 2 March.
‘My wife Ann and I had gone for a walk. I had hoped she might see a green woodpecker as she had not really seen one before.
As we walked we heard a distressed squawking and I saw that flash of green. So hurriedly I pointed the bird out to Ann and it settled into the grass behind a couple of small silver birch trees.
‘Both of us trained our binoculars and it occurred to me that the woodpecker was unnaturally hopping about like it was treading on a hot surface.
‘Lots of wing flapping showing that gloriously yellow/white colour interspersed with the flash of red head feathers.
‘Just after I switched from my binoculars to my camera the bird flew across us and slightly in our direction. Suddenly it was obvious it had a small mammal on its back and this was a struggle for life.’
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