That's right I wanted to start this post off with what I consider to be my best find to date...fisher piss. I am sure yall are asking "oh track master how did you find such a wonderful treasure?" Here is my story...
Now right before the snow had begun to seriously vanish I was able to get out early one morning. As I was trucking along in the wonderful 6 degree air, a set of tracks crossed my usual path. Now do to my past mistakes in identifying tracks, I was able to conclude that these bad larry's were in fact my nemesis the fisher.
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| Even got some tail on this one... |
Needless to say I got excited and started following these tracks up and over hills, around in circles, over frozen creeks, and also some not so frozen ones. I was able to follow these tracks for nearly 2 hours to my complete and utter joy. Another really cool find was I found another set of tracks that converged with the original set. Now right near were the two sets intersected was a large pine tree, at the base of this tree the needles at the base had been all churned up and the snow was a trampled mess. Now I couldn't tell if this was two fishers who had a run in over territory or perhaps some spring time lovin going down. So I followed the tracks and they stayed together for a quite a while. Eventually they split and shortly after I found gold or yellow.
Mating season is right now, taking place in March and April. Also, it is possible that there are some kits in the area because February and March is when fishers give birth. So it is certainly possible that these fishers were in the throes of passion. As far as fisher territory goes it actually varies from season to season. In the winter a fishers range can be 5 square miles and 3 square miles in the spring. Males and females territories do overlap so I am thinking and hoping that next winter there will be even more fishers in the area.
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| Two fishers, one fisher following his/her own tracks, or an eight legged fisher? |
Sweet tracking! One other possibility is that one fisher passed by, scent marked that tree, and then later another came by and went up the same tree and scent marked it as well. The two sets of tracks look like they were made around the same time, but it's possible the two animals never actually came into contact. Regardless, I applaud you, sir!
ReplyDeletewoah! this is really neat- I don't know how you track all these things- pretty gnarly skill.
ReplyDeleteThat is so cool that you found the tracks. I'm kinda jealous cause at my sight I haven't found any animals except birds. I'm always telling my kids not to eat yellow snow, seriously, they would!
ReplyDeleteVery interesting posting about fisher tracking, and I especially enjoyed your humorous approach! Great job!!
ReplyDeleteWow! Love that! Great identifying of the tracks. I did not know that about the fishers, good to know. I just love the fact you were able to tract the urine! Love it1
ReplyDeleteI can share your joy! When I was little if my mischievous golden retriever would escape from my house, I would track him through the snow around my house, and the sand at the beach. It was like detective work.
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