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davis_square2019-10-07 08:49 am
ceelove) wrote in davis_square2019-10-07 08:49 am
Fisher??
I have seen rats, opossums, skunks, turkeys, hawks, owls, raccoons, and groundhogs in Somerville over the years. I’ve heard of coyotes in Davis. I wouldn’t expect deer or bear to make it into this most-densely-populated-city-in-New-England, but I wouldn’t be surprised either.
But yesterday I saw a critter trot-galumphing under cars and across the street that I’ve never seen before, anywhere. It moved like a ferret but was bigger; it had the mass of a groundhog but not the body shape. Like, a huge bumbly weasel or a little fluffy otter.
The best fit I can find for how it looked was a fisher. That has a range that includes Massachusetts, but it’s such a not-urban animal as to be absurdly improbable. But turkeys seem pretty improbable and are now an urban fact of life, so...
Anyone else? Seen an animal that could be a fisher? Have ideas about what else it might be?
ETA: Okay, having watched some YouTube videos of fishers (taking down a groundhog and a fox), I am quite convinced that’s what I saw. Also convinced it could enter someone’s backyard and eat their dog, to say nothing of indoor-outdoor cats.
But yesterday I saw a critter trot-galumphing under cars and across the street that I’ve never seen before, anywhere. It moved like a ferret but was bigger; it had the mass of a groundhog but not the body shape. Like, a huge bumbly weasel or a little fluffy otter.
The best fit I can find for how it looked was a fisher. That has a range that includes Massachusetts, but it’s such a not-urban animal as to be absurdly improbable. But turkeys seem pretty improbable and are now an urban fact of life, so...
Anyone else? Seen an animal that could be a fisher? Have ideas about what else it might be?
ETA: Okay, having watched some YouTube videos of fishers (taking down a groundhog and a fox), I am quite convinced that’s what I saw. Also convinced it could enter someone’s backyard and eat their dog, to say nothing of indoor-outdoor cats.