What Animal Did I See

[Guest 420FLYFISHIN]

I was out on some ricks doing a bit of casting (no fish bighting) and out of teh corner of my eye i noticed a mid sized long rodent skampering around. Larger than a farit with brown fur and a small white patch unter his/her chin.

 

mink or weasel

 

all the weasels i see online have a full belly colore this was just a small tuft of white.

 

Thanks

Jeremy

[vhawk12]

Muskrat?

[Current]

If it was that big and weasel-like it was probably a mink.

 

There's a good pic here that shows the chin patch:

 

http://www.ducks.ca/resource/general/naturenotes/mink.html

 

Nice spot!

 

Cheers

[KnotLikely]

You're sooo high

 

[Guest 420FLYFISHIN]

That looks like the guy i saw, but when i sat on him for a ride he just gave a squeak and a squish......

[Taco]

Did you know that mink gets a mink the same way a good lookin' woman gets a mink?

[Pipestoneflyguy]

House cat

 

Fisher's and Pine Marten's also have similar colouring and shape as you described

[Sean84]

Maybe a mormot

http://wild-facts.com/wp-content/uploads/2...armot_1_web.jpg

[Guest 420FLYFISHIN]

haha, i know it wasnt a marmot. It was not otter large but had a head size larger than a house cat by a bit with the perky triangle ears. My money is on Mink at this point but it was cool to see down here in the city parks.

[Guest tallieho]

i would say it was a mink..where i take my dog[laycock d/park].apparently about 30,35 yrs ago therre were 2 mink farms,these are escapees.i have seen them fishing eating /catching suckers out of the outfalls[nose creek].one farm was right where the dodge dealership is now,the other one was north of the garden center..

[Weedy1]

Sasquatch, no doubt about it.

[Guest Grinr]

Sounds like it was probly a fisher?Mink are only ferret size or smaller with a head the size of a squirrel,same with marten,and weasels are even smaller.Fishers have house cat size heads,bigger than mink,but smaller than otter with a bushy,mink-like tail.

[Sean84]

This must have been it. I just never realized the chupacabra has migrated this far north.

 

[Guest 420FLYFISHIN]

no, more like BatBoy

[agbff]

martin, see quite a few every season... at least i think that is what they are.

 

[Hawgstoppah]

Your report of this sighting is now under investigation.

 

[dube]

I would vote pine marten too, pretty curious creatures. Mink are generally a solid deep red color in my experience. Weasel are tiny little things and probably still lots of white on them yet.

[Guest 420FLYFISHIN]

it was a deep brown but much larger than a ferrit

[Xplorer]

Hey Guys,

 

I saw this in the NW a couple of years ago, it also had a white spot under its chin(the photo doesn't show it).

 

I never did figure out what it was. It moved pretty good through the rocks.

 

[Guest Grinr]

it was a deep brown but much larger than a ferrit

Fisher...

[Current]

There's no way it was a fisher on the banks of the Bow. Nor a marten for that matter unless you were fishing the upper Bow.

 

 

[dryfly]

 

 

 

 

[kungfool]

Fisher martin I'll bet. A very rare animal to stumble across but they are around. Have been fortunate enough to see 2 of them.

[Guest Grinr]

Fisher martin I'll bet. A very rare animal to stumble across but they are around. Have been fortunate enough to see 2 of them.

Ummmm .....fisher or a marten?They are 2 different species.

[ÜberFly]

fisher (Martes pennanti), also called fisher marten, fisher cat, Pennant’s marten, Pennant’s cat, big marten, black fox, black cat, or Pekan

 

Ummmm .....fisher or a marten?They are 2 different species.