Unusual sight captured on CCTV as weasel catches rodent in Worthing resident’s garden

Brian Valentine, of Grand Avenue, sent in footage of the UK’s smallest carnivore hunting and making off with what appears to be a mouse.

The footage, dated September 11, was submitted to this newspaper on Sunday, September 13.

Brian said: “I captured a weasel hunting in my back garden on a security camera the other day. I live about 500m from the sea on Grand Avenue, Worthing. An unusual sighting for a suburban garden!”

According to www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/mammals/weasel weasels eat voles, mice and birds and are related to otters and stoats. Weasels have brown backs, white throats and white bellies and are smaller than than stoats. The weasel has a shorter tail than a stoat and is known to run instead of bound.