Nature on your farm.

Yep - young rooks and jackdaws are big part of both kite and buzzards diet at this time of year as they are rearing their own young.

I don't live on a farm but surrounded by farmland. Had the dreaded Pine Marten in the garden 2 weeks ago, bird in the mouth and all the birds were going mad.

From having 100's, maybe even 1000's of frogs around here 10/20 years ago, there has been a dearth of them. Happy to say that I've had a couple in my garden/wilderness recently. One even jumped into my washing basket when I was putting it out. Makes strimming a bit stressful though.

I would leave them in. Oak starts growing with a taproot. If you remove them, you may damage it and, if not, you would need a very very deep pot if you want to keep it for a year or two in it. It is doable but there are only downside doing it. The taproot gives the strength to the tree and helps it during drought.

What colour was he, I met what I thought was a stoat lately but he was a bit darker in colour than the usual red. He looked brown /black

Would the pine Martin be around the same size

Stoats and weasels are much smaller..

Pine marten is like a big cat with a very big tail. Lovely carnivore teeth on them.

About 30 years ago my father and I were doing work on my brother's farm. When outside the empty farm house two "weasels" appeared.

They were fighting so viciously they never saw us and got within a few metres of us.

I kicked a few pepples, they stopped fighting looked at us and went back fighting. It was like something out of a cartoon.

They were small like rat size.

My late father of refering to someone contrary would say "he's like a weasel"

I would have thought they were longer it's deceiving , I've seen them crossing the road lots of times, mostly red, they are almost snake like in the way they move

There's a fair difference in size between the male and the female, I remember doing concrete and steel work in a place, and every day a stoat would pass through the shed we were working in, around the same time every day, as if we weren't there, they do have a snake like movement for sure