In April last year, while standing on the trail at the shoreline pond,
and looking into the brush between the trail and the waste treatment
plant, I very briefly saw a weasel running along the top of a low
retaining wall. It was running and not bounding. It was an inch to an
inch and a half in diameter and 12 to 15 inches long. It looked like
the tube from a role of paper towels rapidly sliding along the top of
the wall. While it was only a brief glance, I thought it was a
short-tailed weasel. The observation was just a quick, corner of the
eye sighting. It was neither a martin nor a rat.

Richard S. Fleming
Seattle, Washington