help in identifying this critter

[Woodchuck]

sounds like what we call "packrats" or "packies" bout the tent and sleepin bag eatinest little vermin on the mountain. kind of a flat tail, not very bushy, big eyes?

[Gutpile]

Maybe a mountain beaver?

Thats my favorite kind.

[Pathfinder101]

Chupacabra!!!

 
I hate Chupacabras.  I heard a new pack just moved into the Blues...

[boneaddict]

little vermin on the mountain. kind of a flat tail, not very bushy, big eyes?

That sounds like  either Littlebuf or Rasbo.

[Woodchuck]

i forgot about them, i bet your right 

[Pathfinder101]

i forgot about them, i bet your right 

Yeah, they're really playing hell on our Musk Ox herd here in the Blues.  They swoop down and pick them right off the mountainside...  When was the last time you saw a mature Musk Ox? 

[Woodchuck]

oh geez, they are all over, seen three last week, while i was up around Godman sasquatch hunting

[Pathfinder101]

oh geez, they are all over, seen three last week, while i was up around Godman sasquatch hunting

Well, thanks for not posting the pictures here on the site.  The Chupacabra is known to cruise the internet, looking for secret Musk Ox (and Sasquatch) hunting spots, and he would have undoubtably ruined your honey-hole in a 3 day weekend.

By the way, speaking of "ruined", I think this icon is about 3 postes overdue...

 

[Axle]

Weasel. Mouth full of fur might have been a mouse. They are great mousers.

[kenzmad]

dont think it was a weasel as when it ran it did not do the inchworm thin with its back. appears that pine martins do the inchworm thing as well. this guy was very low to the ground and flat is all I can describe it. it ran kinda like a crocodile walks, you know legs out to the sides not underneath the body. this is very puzzling cuz not only have I never seen it before, seems nobody has. we were joking in camp that maybe it was an infant bigfoot. I have no clue but thanks for all the input. the ermine sure looks close but it is too tall at the back and appears to walk with legs under the body. Ya I shoulda shot it but Im afraid there wouldnt have been much left using the 50cal muzzy. besides, what tag do you put on it?

kenzmad

[Kain]

Where did you see it.  It might help narrow it down.

[kenzmad]

I was in the coweeman gmu550 unit hunting elk. I was sitting on a stump in an active logging area next to the new road. They had been cutting on friday and I saw it on saturday. it came down out of the reprod that bordered this new cut. this was on top of the hill on road 4700. if anyone is up there, the road has what appears to be a roll cage of a gocart at the beginning. the loggers are using the rollcage for a stand for their signs to warn us of the logging operations.

kenzmad

[Kain]

Maybe it was a gravid female remaking her nest.  Might have been displaced by the logging.     Might explain why it looks weasel like but doesnt move like one.