Marten's egg hunt adventure | Trail camera | Wild life | Marten

Beech martens are highly adaptable. They will eat anything they can put in their mouths. Alongside wild and garden fruits, they will partake of small animals such as mice, rats, birds and their eggs. Beech martens are often known to be egg thieves. They like taking eggs to keep them for when food is more scarce. The beech marten can open its lower jaw to 90° from its upper jaw to carry the egg. When breaking into chicken coops they are mostly just after the eggs and not the chickens. However, the chicken often receive lethal bites as their flapping about makes the martens aggressive. Other sources of nourishment are insects, earthworms and carrion as well as bird seed or human household waste.

[@SilkeKF]

nice to see them in colour 🙂

[@natureatmydoorstep]

They really are cute creatures 🙂