pine marten

They will also be enlist teams of volunteers to help search for pine marten droppings and put up and check nest boxes in woodland sites.

Northumberland Wildlife Trust will get a pounds 13,788 boost from SITA Trust to help it search for the pine marten in Northumberland.

And in 1993 the skull of a recently-killed pine marten, which resembles a large ferret, was found near Great Ayton.

The dedicated team that works there hand-rear the babs and rehab the injured, all with the view of them ultimately being able to return to the wild, like the pine marten, pictured.

The island of Cephalonia is captured in the dancing lights and fishermen's nets, and the animals - Pelagia's pet goat and pine marten - are two of the best things about the play.

Kefalonia is captured in the dancing lights and fishermen's nets, while Pelagia's pet goat and pine marten are among the highlights (they're played by humans, which sounds twee, but they steal the show).

They were not so lucky last year when all three eggs were stolen by a pine marten.

Mr Naylor - who said the wind turbines were not damaged - revealed: "50% of the moorland was affected and all moorland species including hare, grouse, pine marten, and the eggs of the ground nesting birds would undoubtedly have perished.

The eyes have it ...a pine marten and (above) an eagle

We were looking at the pine martens, when a man next to us started making what he must have assumed was a pine marten noise - putting his clenched fist to his mouth and going "EEEEEUR" through it.

During the late 1800s, loss of habitat, the fur industry and predator control associated with game shooting caused a dramatic decline in the pine marten population and by the early 20th century, the species was close to extinction.