Subject: [Tweeters] Weasel at Discovery Park
Date: Jul 12 16:52:46 2009
From: Eugene and Nancy Hunn - enhunn323 at comcast.net


I've never been able to for certain identify a Short-tailed Weasel. I think
they look essentially identical to the Long-tailed, just a bit smaller.

Gene Hunn
18476 47th Pl NE
Lake Forest Park, WA
enhunn323 at comcast.net

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[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Richard
Fleming
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 10:04 AM
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Subject: [Tweeters] Weasel at Discovery Park

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
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