A fisher strikes a pose
Today's wildlife moment: a posing fisher.
During our email exchange earlier this week with scientist Roland Kays, he passed along two recent clips his wildlife cameras had captured in the Colonie. The first, embedded above, is of a fisher striking a pose in front of a camera just off Sand Creek Road (we're guessing this is the general area):
This camera was ... in a slim strip of forest that connects 2 larger wooded areas (aka core areas). Our GPS tracking of fishers suggested that they used this strip as a movement corridor to get between the larger fragments, we are now testing that by setting cameras out.
We've linked to it before, but here's Kays' "Scientist at Work" series at NYT about tracking fishers in Latham.
The second clip, of raccoons "jogging" over a footbridge near the Hilton Garden Inn at ALB, is after the jump.
Earlier on AOA: Your new neighbors, the fishers
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Those videos made me smile. :)
... said Summer on Jan 19, 2012 at 1:33 PM | link
I probably already mentioned this, but you do know a fisher family was trapped a few doors down from the AOA office a few years ago?
... said EAC on Jan 19, 2012 at 1:48 PM | link
Great videos! Yes, there is a surprising amount of wildlife in parts of Colonie. In our yard, we've had fox, raccoon, skunk, deer, even bear (no kidding - we found its scat, and it was around the same time a bear was spotted a few miles away in Niskayuna). Too bad the last large tracts of woods in Colonie are slated for development.
... said Ellen on Jan 19, 2012 at 3:14 PM | link
@EAC: I didn't know that! I kind of wish they'd move back -- maybe they could scare away the skunks.
... said Greg on Jan 19, 2012 at 11:10 PM | link
Go to "Kristy's Barn" on Facebook. There, you'll find photos and videos posted of camera traps located near the farm store on Brookview Rd in Schodack/Castleton. Lots of deer, turkeys, etc., but I was amazed to see a few visits by a fisher and most remarkably, a bobcat.
... said Kiera on Jan 20, 2012 at 3:23 PM | link