Checked cameras today and found this. Picture of squirrel for reference. Most are saying fisher, but a few saying mink, not big enough to be a fisher.
https://i.postimg.cc/FRKJsSty/PICT0077.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/tRMFJB4Y/PICT0079.jpg
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Checked cameras today and found this. Picture of squirrel for reference. Most are saying fisher, but a few saying mink, not big enough to be a fisher.
https://i.postimg.cc/FRKJsSty/PICT0077.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/tRMFJB4Y/PICT0079.jpg
My guess would be a Pine Martin. Smaller and I believe generally darker than a Fisher but coloration can vary quite a bit. Too big for a mink I think.
edit: upon further research, the seemingly short legs and lack of lighter throat tends to support it being a Mink.
Not big enough to be a Fisher. Pine Martin or Mink.
I'd say its a mink. Any marten I've seen has been reddish in color.
My guess would be a big mink. Beautiful critter.
I am favoring that it is a younger Fisher.
Compared to the Squirrel picture, it is already looking like it is over 3 pounds which would be about the limit of a large Mink.
How near to a swamp is this camera?
I'd say young fisher doesn't really have the right features for a mink
Bush is generally dry. Closest water sources are a creek and a drainage ditch that are both 200+ yards from camera.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Tuna
I would guess small Fisher; I don't believe a pine marten is that big. Nice looking black squirrel in the second picture
Wrong color for a pine marten, little to big for a mink that do not do a lot of tree climbing, I will go with a fisher.
Definitely a fisher. Probably a female. Big females are only about 5 to 6 pounds whereas “dogs” can be up to 15 pounds. A real big size difference between the sexes. Males rend to have coarser hair that is more grizzled when compared to the female. Biggest male I’ve trapped weighed 16.7lbs and the front forelegs and chest muscle was loaded with encysted porky quills.
Fisher is my guess as well......first of the year so probably just a youngin