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a wooded road betwee --Apple-Mail-3-374813982 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Begin forwarded message: > From: "Jim (James W.) Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Date: June 27, 2014 12:37:20 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca>, Barry and Elizabeth > Yoell <b.e.yoell@xcountry.tv> > Cc: Sherman Boates <boatesjs@gov.ns.ca>, "Peter Austin-Smith Jr." > <austinpj@gov.ns.ca>, Mark F Elderkin <elderkmf@gov.ns.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] probable fisher sighting kings co ns > > Re George's question about the fisher's status in King's County, I > recall that 15 years ago or more, in winter, Barry Yoell had a > pretty good sighting of almost certainly a fisher in his yard at > Lumsden Reservoir. And later Mark Elderkin checked the tracks in > the snow and determined that they were very probably from a > fisher. I think this was written up by Barry for the Blomidon > Naturalists newsletter? > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Rick Ballard <ideaphore@gmail.com> >> Date: June 27, 2014 9:40:27 AM ADT >> To: NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> >> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] probable fisher sighting kings co ns >> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >> >> And now Halifax Metro News has picked up the story of the Bronx >> Fisher, with a nice video taken from somebody's back porch. This >> gives a good view of what they look like in the 'wild'. >> >> http://metronews.ca/news/world/1079184/bronx-mystery-creature-is- >> member-of-weasel-family/ >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Rick Ballard >> <ideaphore@gmail.com> wrote: >> Interestingly, just after I read this, I read an article regarding >> a Fisher found living in the Bronx in New York City. Probably a >> smorgasbord of squirrels and rats. >> >> http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/06/25/mystery-solved-for-strange- >> animal-found-scurrying-around-the-bronx/ >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:39 AM, John and Nhung >> <nhungjohn@eastlink.ca> wrote: >> Back in the early spring of 2007, something long , low, dark, and >> very fast shot across a wooded road between Hectanooga and >> Norwood, just inside Digby county, about 100 meters in front of >> our car. My wife noticed a fairly bushy tail, and the picture of >> a fisher looked right. >> >> >> >> Plenty of porcupines around to feed them. >> >> >> >> From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens- >> owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of desolatechair >> Sent: June-26-14 10:19 PM >> To: naturens >> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] probable fisher sighting kings co ns >> >> >> >> George >> >> >> >> I saw a Fisher in woods on the Bog road, between Hantsport and >> Falmouth,in Feb. 2010. >> >> >> >> It was way too fast to get a photo but I do have excellent photos >> of the prints, which have been verified by reliable third parties. >> >> >> >> Jamie >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Sent from Samsung Mobile >> >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> >> From: "George E. Forsyth" >> >> Date:06-26-2014 9:55 PM (GMT-04:00) >> >> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >> >> Subject: [NatureNS] probable fisher sighting kings co ns >> >> >> >> Hello All, >> >> My son called me this afternoon from his truck in a new orchard he is >> managing near Morristown, Kings Co,NS. 44.987921, -64.753974 He said >> that he had seen a badger, I told him that they didn't live in Nova >> Scotia. He has seen badgers in Alberta and Saskatchewan while he >> worked in wilderness areas, he did habitat assessments and badger >> surveys. This animal today ran in front of his truck and underneath a >> large pile if poles that will be used to build a trellis for the new >> orchard. He didn't get out of the truck as he believed it to be a >> badger, and he was unable to take a picture of the animal. >> >> After he described the animal that he had seen, I looked up the >> article that was written by Barry Sabean a number of years ago, and >> read the description to him. The two descriptions matched, and I then >> linked him to a video of a fisher taken in Connecticut. He felt that >> this also matched what he had seen. >> >> He then told me that there had been three areas in the orchard where >> he had daily seen groundhogs, but he now notes that they are now not >> being seen. A fisher in the area would do well having groundhog >> dinners! >> >> How common are fishers, and have they been seen in Kings County? >> >> George Forsyth >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Rick Ballard >> Dartmouth,Nova Scotia, Canada >> >> >> >> -- >> Rick Ballard >> Dartmouth,Nova Scotia, Canada > > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-3-374813982 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">"Jim (James W.) 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