New neighbors

A rainy November afternoon brought quite a surprise recently... mongeese!  I had never seen such a thing, and had to identify them on the internet.  I have shown these photos to friends in the village, and no one had ever seen them before, except for a couple of hunters.

This "pack" (especially fitting because they move about like coyotes or dingos) included 6 mongeese (Herpestes ichneumon), the largest measuring more than a meter.  Not something I'd like to come up against alone...