Can anyone ID this nocturnal animal?

garysanfran · 08-10-2015, 08:51 PM

Thanks for any help...

ishoot308 · 08-10-2015, 09:03 PM

Looks like a mink to me...

SAB1 · 08-10-2015, 09:15 PM

Looks like a fisher cat.

ITD · 08-10-2015, 09:24 PM

Fisher cat, minks are much skinnier.

http://www.massaudubon.org/learn/nat.../fishers/about

brk-lnt · 08-10-2015, 09:27 PM

That's Frank. He's cool.

Dad sold the C * C · 08-10-2015, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by brk-lnt

That's Frank. He's cool.

That's funny

ishoot308 · 08-11-2015, 07:27 AM

Yup, I stand corrected...fisher cat it is!!

Dan

ApS · 08-11-2015, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by garysanfran

Thanks for any help...

Definitely a Fishercat. (Fisher). Neighbors have had two daytime sightings this weekend on Wolfeboro Neck. One other "sighting" was a Fisher "screech" which I personally heard. (Also day time). Among its varied large inhabitants, one Fisher can be seen close-up at the Squam Lake Nature Center.

Their primary prey is the porcupine, which has made a resurgent population here after an absence of decades. One's "outside cat" is another prey animal.

Even medium-sized dogs can be badly harmed, as reported recently in Connecticut.

"My" Fisher is probably living in an above-ground burrow on my lot line, shared with those same neighbors.

Misha888 · 08-17-2015, 09:43 PM

A neighbor up the hill on Varney Point saw one take his cat this spring while he was looking out the window. Nothing I'd like to ever see. Cat was never to be seen again.

dpg · 08-20-2015, 07:06 AM

Frank?? Hmmm right over my head!! Sorry...

KPW · 08-20-2015, 12:39 PM

It could be also be a Pine Martin.

SIKSUKR · 08-20-2015, 01:40 PM

Pretty sure thats a Fisher.Pine Martens have much taller round ears.1st pic is the marten and 2nd is a fisher

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Misha888 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Gilford, NH Posts: 340 Thanks: 280 Thanked 90 Times in 62 Posts	Mean little things . . . A neighbor up the hill on Varney Point saw one take his cat this spring while he was looking out the window. Nothing I'd like to ever see. Cat was never to be seen again. __________________ ☮ _/♥\_ & (✿ˆ◡ˆ✿)

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SAB1 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Tuftonboro Posts: 1,251 Thanks: 193 Thanked 334 Times in 242 Posts	Looks like a fisher cat.

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ITD Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Moultonboro, NH Posts: 2,939 Thanks: 481 Thanked 695 Times in 390 Posts	Fisher cat, minks are much skinnier. http://www.massaudubon.org/learn/nat.../fishers/about

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