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--Apple-Mail-36-806321114 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Paul and everyone, I am one who has never seen either one in the wild, but I would like to know from Paul how much bigger his marten or fisher was compared with the red squirrel? Fishers, I believe, are quite a bit bigger than martens, although each species shows marked sexual dimarphism with males bigger than females. Finally, a martin is a bird not a mammal. Cheers from Jim Begin forwarded message: > From: Paul MacDonald <paulrita2001@yahoo.com> > Date: July 2, 2014 9:11:40 AM ADT > To: "naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] probable fisher sighting kings co ns > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Hi Rick and All > I have difficulty telling which is a martin and which is a fisher. > I've never seen enough of either to be sure of the difference. Any > easy clues? > My best m/f story was at Keji maybe 20 years ago. It was in March > and the snow was nearly gone so I walked from the Fish Hatchery to > Loon Lake Cabin. Its 9 km so when I got there I sat in a sunny spot > to have my tea. It was beside the river. > As I was eating I saw a squirrel in a big red maple tree across the > river. The branches came out over the water. I was watching the > squirrel when I spotted a martin or a fisher - not sure which - > chasing the squirrel which thought it was on the m/f lunch menu. > The squirrel kept getting out on smaller branches, with the weasel > just behind. When the squirrel could go no further both were on the > same branch no bigger than my thumb. In a last attempt the squirrel > jumped to another branch and this set the branch the m/f was on > vibrating rather badly. The m/f lost its balance and fell in the > water. > The water was cold and the m/f didn't know how to swim but kept > trying to walk on the water. Finally its efforts plus the current > got it close enough that it could climb out on shore. > It was cold and wet and started to shake the water out of its coat. > That animal could shake - walk a few feet and shake again. finally > it disappeared in the forest. > A great memory. > I hope you all take the chance to walk in the forest - never know > what you will see. Its not important if you know the difference > between a martin and a fisher - lots of folks know who never saw > either in the wild! > Enjoy the summer > Paul > > > On Friday, June 27, 2014 7:59:39 AM, Rick Ballard > <ideaphore@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Interestingly, just after I read this, I read an article regarding > a Fisher found living in the Bronx in New York City. Probably a > smorgasbord of squirrels and rats. > > http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/06/25/mystery-solved-for-strange- > animal-found-scurrying-around-the-bronx/ > > > > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:39 AM, John and Nhung > <nhungjohn@eastlink.ca> wrote: > Back in the early spring of 2007, something long , low, dark, and > very fast shot across a wooded road between Hectanooga and Norwood, > just inside Digby county, about 100 meters in front of our car. My > wife noticed a fairly bushy tail, and the picture of a fisher > looked right. > > Plenty of porcupines around to feed them. > > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens- > owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of desolatechair > Sent: June-26-14 10:19 PM > To: naturens > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] probable fisher sighting kings co ns > > George > > I saw a Fisher in woods on the Bog road, between Hantsport and > Falmouth,in Feb. 2010. > > It was way too fast to get a photo but I do have excellent photos > of the prints, which have been verified by reliable third parties. > > Jamie > > > > > Sent from Samsung Mobile > > -------- Original message -------- > From: "George E. Forsyth" > Date:06-26-2014 9:55 PM (GMT-04:00) > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: [NatureNS] probable fisher sighting kings co ns > > Hello All, > > My son called me this afternoon from his truck in a new orchard he is > managing near Morristown, Kings Co,NS. 44.987921, -64.753974 He said > that he had seen a badger, I told him that they didn't live in Nova > Scotia. He has seen badgers in Alberta and Saskatchewan while he > worked in wilderness areas, he did habitat assessments and badger > surveys. This animal today ran in front of his truck and underneath a > large pile if poles that will be used to build a trellis for the new > orchard. He didn't get out of the truck as he believed it to be a > badger, and he was unable to take a picture of the animal. > > After he described the animal that he had seen, I looked up the > article that was written by Barry Sabean a number of years ago, and > read the description to him. The two descriptions matched, and I then > linked him to a video of a fisher taken in Connecticut. He felt that > this also matched what he had seen. > > He then told me that there had been three areas in the orchard where > he had daily seen groundhogs, but he now notes that they are now not > being seen. A fisher in the area would do well having groundhog > dinners! > > How common are fishers, and have they been seen in Kings County? > > George Forsyth > > > > > -- > Rick Ballard > Dartmouth,Nova Scotia, Canada > > --Apple-Mail-36-806321114 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Paul and everyone, I am one who has never seen either one in the wild, = but I would like to know from Paul how much bigger his marten or fisher = was compared with the red squirrel? 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