In SW Scotland: a stoat, a red kite, 'wild' goats and a PINE MARTEN. The first time I've seen a pine marten in Scotland and in broad freakin' daylight
Ooh, that is a good'un! I have seen one in the Picos de Europa in Spain, we were just having our evening constitutional walk up from our holiday apartment, and Mrs W said "what that in the road behind us?" and lo and behold, a pine marten standing up on his back legs, effectively saying "Hey, look, I'm a pine marten, wanna take a picture?"
We spent this weekend at Fawley Hill, the McAlpine's place near Henley on Thames. it was nice to see the cuddly alpacas, and see the camels and tapirs, but after the event had a flying display by a spitfire, we were all treated to a far better display by a pair of red kites, who were not exactly shy, and were swooping down and grabbing things off the ground. Sadly I was travelling as light as possible, photographically, and only had my 17-70 lens. I hasten to add that the red kites were not staged, they were just the local bird population. We do see them near home, but they aren't usually as brazen as these were.