Fleet feet

 

I felt very lucky today (25 April 2025) when I noticed a Long-tailed Weasel (Neogale frenata) crossing the road and then spent a few minutes observing it along the Bodega Harbor shoreline.

The weasel was weaving in and out of the rocks, so views were fleeting, but occasionally the weasel would pop up and pause to look around:

I liked the way the color of the weasel's ventral fur (on its throat and belly) matched the color of the lichens on the rocks.

 

 

 

Once it perched on the upper edge of a rock:

 

 

But mostly it was lower, leaping from rock to rock, and zipping in and out of the crevices and cavities among the rocks:

 

 

 

Weasels are so fast that in many of my photos I only caught a portion of its body, especially the tail end.  These photos made me laugh, so I thought I'd share them, too: