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Originally Posted by Argie's Wife
I didn't realize there were mink in the area... I'm now wondering if what I thought was a small otter in my back yard early last spring was really mink... hmmmmm......
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Before the mink industry moved to Michigan, GLAMMA (as in Black Glamma Mink) stands for the Great Lakes Mink Association, the US mink capital was the Lakes Region. When they all moved to Michigan, they took their breeding mink and let the others go. So, we have a lot of mink (which is a weasel) in and around the Lake. We have a family in our breakwater every year - they are cute and industrious - off fishing every night - often see piles of lake mussels where they had been feeding. Just stay clear - they are nasty.
As far as chipmunks are concerned, we saw a normal population on Barndoor Island this year but red squirrels were rare while the gray squirrel population was up considerably.