In Early Posts I Have Pictured Albinos,

well this here is not an albino, it is a stoat in it's winter clothes! Stoats sometimes go white in winter to match the snow on the ground, well this colony (they are called ermine when they have white coats) has changed early this year, now experts at Mount Grace Priory, near Osmotherley, are wondering whether the appearance of the ermine-clad stoats is a sign of things to come or just a reflection of the recent icy weather, maybe they know better than the Met Office and we could have a white Christmas!