collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: Critter ID  (Read 2423 times)

Offline GBoyd

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Apr 2014
  • Posts: 369
Critter ID
« on: May 03, 2015, 08:49:51 PM »
Sorry for the bad picture, I saw a small animal that I don't recognize while canoeing on the Tualatin river this afternoon. At first I thought it was an otter, but it's smaller than most river otters I've seen and didn't seem to want to swim. When we got too close and spooked it, it ran back on this log and ran away along the bank.

I'm thinking marten or fisher, but I've never seen either before and I thought they weren't supposed to live here?

Offline shootem

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2011
  • Posts: 599
Re: Critter ID
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2015, 09:10:29 PM »
With in the quality of the pic as shown and blown up it sure looks like a young otter. It has the thick tail and bigger head. I love em.

Offline GBoyd

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Apr 2014
  • Posts: 369
Re: Critter ID
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2015, 09:22:34 PM »
It sure could be. As I got closer I came away thinking it wasn't an otter, but maybe it was.

I need to back out there in the evening with a real camera.

Offline Timberstalker

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Apr 2008
  • Posts: 9163
  • Location: Tri-Cities
  • Just one more ridge
Re: Critter ID
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2015, 04:37:14 AM »
Is it a Mink?
If you aint hunting, you aint livin'

Offline WAcoyotehunter

  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (+5)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2007
  • Posts: 4438
  • Location: Pend Oreille County
Re: Critter ID
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2015, 12:39:33 PM »
With in the quality of the pic as shown and blown up it sure looks like a young otter. It has the thick tail and bigger head. I love em.
+1  I think that is an otter

Offline MtnMuley

  • Site Sponsor
  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Aug 2009
  • Posts: 8635
  • Location: NCW
Re: Critter ID
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2015, 02:11:54 PM »
Otter

Offline kodiak 907

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2013
  • Posts: 1200
  • Location: Skagit Valley
  • Groups: U.S. Navy/Combat Recon, NRA, DU
Re: Critter ID
« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2015, 03:00:02 PM »
Otter
Spider 2 Y banana

Offline GBoyd

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Apr 2014
  • Posts: 369
Re: Critter ID
« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2015, 09:25:36 PM »
Is it a Mink?

Oh. Yeah, it was a mink. I hadn't considered it, but now that I'm looking at pictures on google I'm sure that's what it was. I can see how it looks like an otter in the pictures, but it had such a weasel-y gait when it was running.

Cool! Like I said, I'll have to hunt him down and get some better pictures.

 


* Advertisement

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2024, SimplePortal