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Offline Lee D.

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« on: November 26, 2003, 02:50:14 AM »
Last week in the Adirondacks I saw an animal I could not identify.  It was about 60 yards out in the pencil brush and to the best of my vision this is what I saw.  It was about 3 feet long not including a short tail or the head, looked to be about 10 to 12 inches deep through the body, had short legs maybe 6 to 10 inches, and was dark to the point of appearing black.  It appeared to weigh 30-40 lbs. It moved like a weasel.  
My first thought was a fisher but after looking them up this thing was way too big.
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« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2003, 04:13:23 AM »
Hi Lee,
 Maybe it was a heavily spotted Lynx. Making it appear darker than normal. They get to be between 2 and 4 feet long with the tail. If there was snow on the ground it may also have looked like the legs were shorter than they were.
Just a thought.

Hey, I see you're also in the Catskills. Where about are you. I'm in New Kingston which is near Margaretville.

Stay Safe,
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« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2003, 05:19:49 AM »
A stray Wolverine?
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« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2003, 07:57:35 AM »
Its a FISHER.                                           BigBill
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« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2003, 10:19:36 AM »
The info from the Fisher thread said that they had a max weight of about 6 kilo which is about 15 pounds.  This was definetly bigger than that.
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« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2003, 12:40:26 PM »
I notice that size and weight do vary to the amount of availabe food in the area too.  I have seen big coyotes in my camp the size of female german shepards.                                                             BigBill
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« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2003, 10:57:21 AM »
Sounds like a big groundhog to me.DGB :)
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« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2003, 04:33:34 AM »
Is this what it looked like?

Wolverine
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