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Jer 🚵🏼

Flashback to January 2022, hiking in fresh snow and seeing something move. Took a fair bit of standing still before I saw it again, it would weave in and out of nooks, as if looking for “snacks” that were snoozing.

jumble of branches covered in snow on top of snow covered ground. But some of the snow has eyes and a little nose and is looking at you to assess its next move before slinking away or carrying on with what it is doing.
White weasel almost blending into the snow completely comes out of a cave (whose??) to head somewhere else, it is stretched out long and beyond the eyes and inside of ears, all of it is white except the tip of its tail
weasel slinking up a couple snow covered rocks by6 base of tree, it’s an open area so movements are quick and from one safe spot to the next, there are owls in this area
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Feb 12, 2025, 12:28 PM·Public·Ivory for Mac
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Isaac

@jerzone That's a treat to see!

I had one looking at me poking up through a rotten log while walking into my deer stand in Nov. Eyes glowed from my headlamp to help me notice him. He was fully white already, but there was no snow there yet.

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Jer 🚵🏼

@idropyou It was a fun challenge, they'd pop out of sight and I'd guess about where to point camera next. This area has lots of granite boulder piles, and downed trees, easy to get from one spot to another without emerging.

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Isaac

@jerzone Oh, that sounds like good habitat. Our current selective logging operation will help the population of animals like these. All the tops left down give them cover and also cover for what they eat. Fun seeing stuff other than deer and turkeys.

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Jer 🚵🏼

@idropyou New game … spot the weasel!

a scene with some upright trees, snow ladened branches, lots of branches on the ground and so many nooks for a white weasel to slip into or out of. In this case there’s a tree thats growing horizontally out of the side of hill and then takes a 90° turn to the vertical. Near its base, just below it, a slightly different shade and texture of white is the weasel
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Isaac

@jerzone oh man, that's tough! Maybe right in the middle. Oof.

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Jer 🚵🏼

@idropyou Yep. Here's the “live" photo of trying to capture it. Caution: very shaky!

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Tim Stanton

@jerzone
Wow! A white weasel! How rare of a sighting is this?

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Jer 🚵🏼

@TimKStanton No idea, I figured they usually turn white in the winter. Then again I have old photo of something in that genus sneaking under our deck that's decidedly not white.

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