Remarkable photo captures woodpecker flying with weasel on its back in Essex park http://t.co/EH8oK5WGP4 pic.twitter.com/jRoP8Km5sa — ITV News (@itvnews) March 2, 2015 An amateur photographer in the U.K. captured the snap of his lifetime on Monday when he witnessed a weasel clinging onto a woodpecker’s back mid-flight. Martin Le-May from Essex near London said he was first alerted to the bird’s “distressed squawking” at Hornchurch Country Park after the tiny carnivore apparently pounced on it in search of a meal. “The bird flew across us and slightly in our direction,” he told ITV News.