Subject: Re: Montlake
Date: May 31 11:28:19 1996
From: Janet Partlow - partlowj at elwha.evergreen.edu


SO as regards the water mammal, the first thing to look at and ask
yourself:"What did the tail look like?" This will rapidly sort out
beavers from everything else.
Janet Partlow
elwha.evergreen.edu

On Fri, 31 May 1996, Glenda Pearson wrote:

> Hi,
> A bit off-topic from "purple peril" but do any of you folks know if there
> are beaver around the Montlake Fill? We were out canoeing just before
> sunset last night, enjoying the disneyesque tame fauna (canoe perching
> mallards and redwinged blackbirds), the occasional muskrat, but no
> turtles, darnit, when something BIG splashed a hundred yards or so away.
> We paddled over to investigate, and a large head appeared, distinct ears,
> brownish color. It was easily as curious about us as we were about
> him/her. We would get within a certain distance and then the beastie
> would sort of roll up and almost out of the water and then dive, slapping
> the water as it went under. Then it would resurface and peer at us again.
>
> Way too big to be a muskrat.
>
> It was a very beautiful evening, and almost empty of other boaters.
>
> Glenda Pearson
> Suzzallo Library
>
>