Buck Magnet

Hello everyone. I am not sure if anyone is going to have an answer to this but is the Game Commission releasing Pine Martins or soemthing to that effect in Indiana County, between the Jimmy Stewart Airport and the Pine Grove Maximum Security Juvenile Detention Facility? I have seen about 7 of them this year and it is the first time I have ever seen them around here. They are probablly about 10 inches long. Dark brown, yellowish under belly, long tail with a black tip at the end. Two of them were dead, the looked like hawks had grabbed them and dropped them, the other 5 were all alive. There were two running around the bank of a small stream, there was one in a small opening in the woods, I just walked up and it ran into a hollowed out tree. There were two more that I saw playing around the breast of a small dam. What are they? Are the ferrets, weasels, or pine martins?

Good Luck This Season: Buck Magnet
P.S. Only Chuck Adams can sit at home and see deer so get into the woods. =;^)

BTBowhunter

I'm not a furbearerer expert but I think I remember enough from furtaker classes to say that's probably a weasel. If the 10" is including tail, I think it's a least weasel.

Edited by - btbowhunter on 01/19/2002 00:02:14

Big Country

sounds like a buck mink to me.

Big Country

Ops, did`nt catch the yellowish underbelly, make that a female mink.

cardeer

A vampire weasel.got onr here sitting on my curtain rod

Buck Magnet

Vampire Weasel, hmmmmmm, that sounds like one of those snipes my uncle tried getting me to catch in the middle of Cooks Forest. It sounds like one of those blood sucking moths that my friend saw in our tent when we were camping. It also sounds like one of those German Rockfish, disappearing deer...... The German Rockfish, for all of you who don't know what that is, my friend and I were fishing at a small stream. He caught a creek chub and asked me what it was, I told him it was a creek chub, he said, "No, your wrong, its a German Rockfish and he threw it against a rock" haha. Cardeer, you crack me up.

Good Luck This Season: Buck Magnet
P.S. Only Chuck Adams can sit at home and see deer so get into the woods. =;^)

Buck Magnet

I found it, it is a long tailed weasel. It took about an hour of searching on the internet but I FINALLY found it. Here is a link to the pic if you want to see it. They are cute little buggers.
http://www.enature.com/fieldguide/sh...?imageID=18710

Now, does anyone know why the Game Commission would stock them?

Good Luck This Season: Buck Magnet
P.S. Only Chuck Adams can sit at home and see deer so get into the woods. =;^)

BTBowhunter

BM they,ve been around forever. It is unusual to suddenly see so many in a short period of time though. I may have seen half a dozen in 30+ years of hunting and only two least weasels in all that time.

Buck Magnet

I didn't know. I have grew up in the woods and never saw one, then this year I saw so many. I just figured that the Game Commission was stocking them around here. Thanks.

Good Luck This Season: Buck Magnet
P.S. Only Chuck Adams can sit at home and see deer so get into the woods. =;^)

Jason N

For what it is...I've seen quite a few weasels when I've been fishing in Clinton county.

Oh, and snipes are an existant bird species here in PA. They are huntable and a woodcock in size. There are snipes in Cook Forest too! Your uncle had a different "snipe hunting" method in though, I'm sure.