I have only seen 2 fishers in the wild in my lifetime, both when I was
hunting. They are quite beautiful to watch. The first one was well aware of
my presence, and spent some time making a circle around me, but about 25
yards away.
Of course I may have another chance of seeing one, as, thankfully, I am no
where near 65 yrs old :-)
Wayne (still not eligible for the most basic senior's discount for several
more weeks)
> I climbed into my elevated deer stand yesterday about 6PM just to
> sit and watch the woods. After a half hour I noticed a small bit of
> movement, and low and behold a fisher walked/jumped into view less than
> 30' away. What's a fisher? Think mink on steroids, or, roughly, a very
> skinny, but very large, cat with short legs. Beautiful animal! It
> actively poked its nose here and there, scampered about, and generally
> entertained me for over a minute. And the E-1? Back in the cabin,
> regretfully. The fisher finally worked its way away from me, but then
> it turned a 180 and moved up the path I had taken to my stand. Closer,
> closer, until it walked less than 2' away from the base of the ladder to
> my stand. It jumped onto a rotten log all but directly below me; it
> was now no more than 14' away from me, straight down. I took my
> imaginary E-1, cranked the 14-54 lens to 54mm, and took some
> frame-filling, if imaginary, shots. It was an absolutely magic couple
> of minutes. I've never in my 65 years been that close for that long to
> a fisher. But one can't take a photo if one doesn't have a camera
> along. Next time I'm in that stand I'll bring the E-1 along.
> There's a decent (better than anything I took) shot of a fisher at
> www.borealforest.org/zoo/fisher.htm.
> Dean
>
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