A photo making the rounds of a baby weasel riding on the back of a woodpecker as it flies through the air is, perhaps, the greatest photo ever taken.
ABSOLUTLEY INCREDIBLE photo by Martin Le-May. Green Woodpecker and Weasel. Apparently the Woodpecker escaped. pic.twitter.com/PUt1b2Mbhs
— Jason Ward (@Jayward7) March 2, 2015
The image was captured by amateur U.K. photographer Martin Le-May who said that he took the picture while walking with his wife Ann through Hornchurch Country Park in London on Monday. He told ABC News how he got the pic:
“As we walked we heard a distressed squawking and I saw that flash of green. So hurriedly I pointed out to Ann the bird and it settled into the grass behind a couple of silver birch trees,” Le-May told ABC News.
“Both of us trained our binoculars and it occured that the woodpecker was unnaturally hopping about like it was treading on a hot surface. Lots of wing flapping showing that gloriously yellow/white colour interspersed with the flash of red head feathers. Just after I switched from my binoculars to my camera the bird flew across us and slightly in our direction; suddenly it was obvious it had a small mammal on its back and this was a struggle for life.”
Le-May also told ABC News that the woodpecker survived and flew away.
