Pine marten - one of a pair - living in our roof, summer of 2009 In an uninhabited cottage near Moneygall, Co. Offaly. Taken on mobile phone - apologies for my language, but at the time we were a little surprised by the great furry thing living in our roof - pine martens are bigger than you might think! This video is terrible quality, and was not intended for Youtube, but friends who work in the Irish National Parks & Wildlife Service asked us to throw it up here, and share the footage. 5 minutes prior to this, it had climbed straight up the vertical wall of the cottage at the other end of the roof, like a monkey with velcro feet! Afterwards, we played 'tap-the-ceiling' with them, which was quite cute....I would tap the ceiling, and they would scamper, in the attic space, towards where I was making the sound...seemingly no-one told the pair we had in the cottage that pine martens are solitary, timid & shy...this was a definite pair, who were happy enough to let us share *their* cottage with them, whenever we went up to work on the place. Cute & rare - but we're glad they're gone - they did a tremendous amount of damage whilst in residence!

• published: 01 Jun 2011
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• author: ex2cver