-----Original Message-----
From: lydia <lydia at wizards.net>
To: Tweeters!!! <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Friday, May 29, 1998 8:08 PM
Subject: Marymoor, Friday Morning (Weasels & Birds!)


>Hi Tweeters!
>
>On my way back I spied some small sparrow-ish birds flying around close
>to the ground near the model airplane flight zone. These birds were
>medium brown and as they were flying I could see redish brown on their
>wings. They were too small for swallows and weren't swooping like
>swallows.


There are usually 20+ House Finches all over the model airplane field. Could
that be what you saw?

>But the real treat was catching a litter of baby martins frollicking
>around the footbridge on the path. These teensy-tiny baby weasels
>startled me as much as I startled them. I froze in my tracks as the
>scurried away. Moments later they climbed back to the bridge to stare at
>me. They kept playing hide and seek until only one returned for one last
>stare at the strange creature.....me.


I have seen what a weasel at that same footbridge (maybe twice, I can't
remember), and last July 3, Brian Bell saw a weasel somewhere in that same
general area. We assumed Long-tailed based on what we read in books. And
they ARE cute.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland WA
== MJCT_Hobbs at msn.com