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Community => Photo & Video => Topic started by: GBoyd on May 03, 2015, 08:49:51 PM

Title: Critter ID
Post by: GBoyd 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?
Title: Re: Critter ID
Post by: shootem 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.
Title: Re: Critter ID
Post by: GBoyd 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.
Title: Re: Critter ID
Post by: Timberstalker on May 04, 2015, 04:37:14 AM: Is it a Mink?
Title: Re: Critter ID
Post by: WAcoyotehunter on May 04, 2015, 12:39:33 PM: Quote from: shootem 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.
+1 I think that is an otter
Title: Re: Critter ID
Post by: MtnMuley on May 04, 2015, 02:11:54 PM: Otter
Title: Re: Critter ID
Post by: kodiak 907 on May 04, 2015, 03:00:02 PM: Otter
Title: Re: Critter ID
Post by: GBoyd on May 04, 2015, 09:25:36 PM: Quote from: Timberstalker on May 04, 2015, 04:37:14 AM
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.