Advice on pinemartin

I didn't mean tiny like a mouse, but they're tiny in terms of animals we should consider dangerous. Then again, plenty of eejits are afraid of mice or moths so human ability to reckon 'danger' might not be entirely trustworthy.

I grew up close to Lough Ree and we lost the odd hen to a mink. We used to hear them screeching at each other during the night, absolutely bloodcurdling sound. We found a dead one once, in the middle of an area a few metres in diameter where every blade of grass was torn up or flattened. Obviously an epic fight to the death had taken place. I was only about 8 at the time and for months I wouldn't let my dog (a bull terrier!) out of my sight in case he met the mink that had won the fight.

Later on this evening I'll fire up some old laptops and see if I can find the videos of some pinemartens I took a few years ago.

Well this is annoying.

I have tried three laptops, which meant digging out old chargers and trying to remember passwords. I only got one laptop working and that meant looking through numerous videos with numerical titles that revealed nothing about the contents. I dredged through an old external hard drive and got sidetracked by videos of my departed dogs.

All I have found are two snips from stills of one of the videos. I know there's a video of two pine martens in daylight but I have come to the conclusion that it's on one of the non-functioning laptops along with some lovely footage of foxes, badgers and a hedgehog. Very disappointing.

Tell you what though. I'm going to get back into things and start leaving cameras out again.

So this has consumed my evening. I can't find the video the stills were taken from and I can't find the one in daylight but I found this clip of two martens either disagreeing or gettin' frisky.

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Yeah. Can't upload videos.

I give up.