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The heat's already gotten to our squirrel neighbor, and it's just after nine a.m. KOMO says 85 degrees today, tops. Cliff Mass says in New England, people are complaining about their cold, dreary summer, but we've got temps in the 80s as far as next Monday.

       

It was too nice a day to spend entirely indoors. (Not that we aren't going to the Ms game tonight, but--okay we were bored.) So we grabbed our camera and slogged across Marsh Island and beyond, past the youth groups, past the college kids sneaking Coors Light in the great outdoors. Montlake was humid and alive with summering wildlife.

A perfect sunny afternoon walk around Capitol Hill earlier this week was ruined by the most disturbing thing we've ever spotted on a Seattle sidewalk: a perfectly skinned squirrel, hairless save the still-furry tail. We spotted the poor creature on 12th Avenue, just south of Union. This was not the work of a clever coyote, which do stalk small animals on the Hill. Nope, all of the meat remained on the carcass, so it must have been some sick two-legged creature roaming about Capitol Hill. Made us glad that our animals are indoor only, but left us wondering if any of you have spotted skinned animals around Capitol Hill and what we can do about it.