Our boy Al Bezanson submits-
Pop!
I was approaching my back steps and focusing a telephoto lens on these flowers when up popped a weasel. He appeared for just a few seconds three times, and I managed this quick shot on his last pop. He seemed to be staring me down, and my expression mirrored his I’d guess. I was very happy to see him, for a single weasel typically kills hundreds of mice in a year.
Have you ever seen a weasel? Fairly certain I haven’t. Is that weird that I haven’t seen a weasel?
Good Morning Gloucester 
Nice shot Al! It must be impossible to take a shot of a weasel. Wish you could send her over to my house. I had a mouse scamper across the kitchen counter last night.
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Thanks Paul. It is impossible. Their tendency to be nocturnal is unhelpful. He might have been an insomniac or sleep-walking. I waited eighty years to get the shot. And it was a photobomb operation on his part.
A single weasel dispatches as many as a thousand prey animals in a year. They will get into a henhouse through a knothole and quickly take out an entire flock. Which leads to the idea you might set out your collection of small yellow birds, disguised with tar and feathers, in a have-a-heart trap to attract and capture your own mouser. Set up a camera. A crazed weasel biting inflatables would make a helluva video clip. Be careful though. No telling what he would do when angered.
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I have never seen a weasel but after seeing your photo Al, would love to!!
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Great post and Schooner39 is correct about taking the chicken flock out – skunks are also robust to but they may leave a trace that last for a while longer! Phew! 🙂 Dave
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