Filming Weasels
Or Trying To Film Weaselsby Dan Hartman
Sept. 5, 2012
I’m lying here in the grass some 11,000 feet high watching a hole in the rocky slope. At 8:30 this morning a weasel slipped inside. It’s now 3:00 P.M.Jeff and I have been trying to film weasels interacting with pica for the last three days. We did get a little footage of this guy hunting before he disappeared, but we need much more. And closer! What we get will be used in a BBC film on pica being shot in Canada.
Kelly and I spent twenty minutes with a weasel, even watching it chase a pica ten feet from us. But that was four days ago, one day before Jeff arrived! So goes the film guiding business. The frustrating thing is, the goats and pica have been great. But we’re hired for weasels only. Nothing else matters.
On our way home one night, we came across a collared fox carrying his evening catch back to it’s offspring.
I’ve included a photo. Don’t get grossed out!!-
Photos
Weasel The Day Before We Begon Filming
Jeff On The Lookout For Weasels
Pica Gathered Grass All Around Us
Fox Carrying 7 Pocket Gophers