{"id":33938,"date":"2015-09-08T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=33938"},"modified":"2015-09-07T06:54:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:54:14","slug":"long-tailed-weasel-with-the-nose-of-a-prize-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/08\/long-tailed-weasel-with-the-nose-of-a-prize-fighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-tailed Weasel With The Nose Of A Prize Fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weasel may have been in a scrap and came out the loser but who knows, the “other guy” may look even worse.<\/p>\n

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\u00a01\/2500, F\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

I photographed this little mustelid about two weeks ago at Bear River MBR as it scurried around and entered this burrow in the middle of the road. It has an apparent injury to its nose pad which\u00a0appears to have been torn partially loose and then healed out-of-place to the right of center – it looks the same in all my images. Weasels are extremely aggressive toward many other species and even their own kind – cannibalism is not uncommon with them (as I’ve documented here<\/a>), even with their own siblings. I can only guess what happened to this one.<\/p>\n

The following image is very similar to this one, with\u00a0a significant difference that I found interesting.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a01\/2500, F\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

The tail poking up out of the hole so far from the body gives us a graphic visual of how long and sinuous the body really is.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a01\/2500, F\/7.1, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

The nose pad may have been injured but its olfactory function was apparently working just fine because the weasel spent some time sniffing around several places on the road where birds had defecated (probably Great Blue Heron in this case).<\/p>\n

I thought the effect of depth of field was interesting in this image. Even though I switched to F\/7.1 in an attempt to get more of the weasel a little sharper, the head is (barely) sharp enough but the rear end of the animal is noticeably soft. Another testament to the length of the body even at this slightly\u00a0slanting angle.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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This weasel may have been in a scrap and came out the loser but who knows, the “other guy” may look even worse.<\/p>\n

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