Caught on the prowl, one of Scotland's most voracious predators is in search of a midnight snack. But this time, no blood will be spilt. This European pine marten (Martes martes) is on its way to snaffle a peanut treat from a dispenser set up at the end of the log. "The martens tend to raid the feeder boxes set up mainly for squirrels," says photographer Terry Whittaker, who used a camera trap to get the image. Whittaker says that the pine marten took its own photo when its head broke a laser beam and activated the camera. "I leave it on all day and night," he says. Eerily illuminated by the night-time light pollution from the city of Inverness, this shot was taken on Black Isle, a forested peninsula bounded by water on three sides.
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