I agree with Gene. Most weasels would be moving too fast to get a reliable
fix on size. That said, my only (for certain) weasel sighting in the wild
was at Turnbull Natl Wildlife Refuge. I was sitting on a log eating lunch,
around noon. The weasel scampered around me a few feet away, repeatedly
standing on its hind legs and eye-balling me. No doubt wondering, in its
little weasel brain, whether it could take me on. I am 99% sure it was a
long-tail, based on size.

Kelly Cassidy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu [mailto:tweeters-
> bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Eugene and Nancy Hunn
> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 4:53 PM
> To: 'Richard Fleming'; tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Weasel at Discovery Park
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu
> [mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of
> Richard
> Fleming
> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 10:04 AM
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> 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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