What is This Critter?
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From: Richm444
21-Apr-15
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I just recovered my camera after 3 months. 90 percent of the pics are deer going in and out where a 2 acre grove of large oaks exist.
I cannot figure out what this critter may be.
Could it just be a bunny ? The movement does not look right - A Fisher maybe ? but too small ? Opossum or Coon ? Movement does not seem slow enough.
I will link a few more vids too
From: Richm444
21-Apr-15
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BTW - sorry for the hum on the audio - I don't know what causes it but it comes and goes .
Here are a few more vids
Deer in high snow
From: CTCrow
21-Apr-15
A fox? Too small for chupacabras.
From: Richm444
21-Apr-15
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Here is a bobcat for comparison - sorry for the humming noise
From: Wild Bill
21-Apr-15
Fox. White tip on tail is clear and hopping lope is about right.
From: bb
21-Apr-15
I think it's a fox
From: bigbuckbob
22-Apr-15
Agree - fox.
From: Wood Walker
22-Apr-15
That's a skunk. Freeze the first frame and you can see the white stripes on his right side
From: CTCrow
22-Apr-15
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It doesn't have the skunk walk.
From: bb
22-Apr-15
Now that you say skunk, I think you could make a case for skunk also. When I first saw it I thought fox but it didn't look exactly like a fox or move exactly like it, I kind of attributed that to the snow but I think it's possible it could be a skunk.
From: soapdish
22-Apr-15
Baby squatch, nah. Beaver with slightly shaved tail...perhaps.
From: Brian M.
22-Apr-15
That is a skunk. Moving right along too. Feb/Mar is breeding season, that would be a male out looking for a den site with a hot female.
From: notme
24-Apr-15
its a drunk female midget in a skunk coat high tailing it out of dodge cause its closing time at the bar and she realized she is the only female there....its a skunk dude , wobble walk/run
From: Birdman
25-Apr-15
Someone has to say it so I will.....chupacabra
From: CTCrow
27-Apr-15
Way too small for a chupacabras.
From: BowhunterVA33
27-Apr-15
sorry Bird.. that is *obviously* a mountain lion. A baby one.
From: Richm444
29-Apr-15
I never ever saw a skunk in the snow - could it be a pine marten ? What weasel species do we have here ? Fisher, pine marten and skunks ? any others ?
