Hitchhiking Wildlife

There we were driving back from the bright lights of Liskeard(!) the other day when out of the corner of our vision we spotted a small four-legged red chap poised at the edge of the road - a stoat. For a few seconds he loitered there, maybe thinking of thumbing a lift to Bodmin moor, or maybe just considering dashing across the road(dangerous), and then he turned super-quick, flashed his tail defiantly, thumbed his nose at passing motorists and disappeared into the hedgerow. Superb.