Pine Marten report from Mt. Pierce

[Waumbek]

This not my trip report but Dave Govatski's from March 29th. Nice pics of the marten in a tree.

 

[Chip]

those are great pictures. our lean-to at Marcy Dam was infiltrated by a pine martin a couple weeks ago. Pete Hickey's named him George.
I missed getting a picture, but had a long look as he rummaged through my buddies pans. they are great looking animals.

 

[spider solo]

I also had my first sighting of a Pine Marten a few weeks ago on the Crawford Path near the junction of the Mizpah Cutoff Trail towards Pierce.
Beautiful animal ..very inquisitive it was the high point of the hike that day !
Great photos.
I wonder if it was the same fellow...

 

[Puck]

During the Audubon CBC back in Feb we had a group go up Pierce via Crawford path. They saw a pine marten also, perhaps it is the same one.

 

[jade]

Just another reason to stop and look up and all around while on the trails...nice little story and photos...thanks....
...Jade

 

[grouseking]

One morning...about 6am I saw what looked like a pine marten on I-93 in between exits 30 and 31. It might not have been but man it looked like one.

Question. Are these pine marten tracks? I got a pic of them the other day on my hike up Liberty. This is from the Liberty Spring Trail around 3500'.

pine marten? 1

pine marten 2

grouseking

 

[bryan]

i got a gander of that same marten after meeting dave at the hut. thanks to him for pointing it out to me and for some good trail advice. really neat animals those martens. my pictures didn't come out quite as well though.

bryan

 

[Chip]

One morning...about 6am I saw what looked like a pine marten on I-93 in between exits 30 and 31. It might not have been but man it looked like one.

Question. Are these pine marten tracks? I got a pic of them the other day on my hike up Liberty. This is from the Liberty Spring Trail around 3500'.

pine marten? 1

pine marten 2

grouseking

I'm looking at my charts now. Your prints look a little too oval to be marten.
The ones I show that look more like yours are longtail weasel, skunk and maybe woodchuck, but I'm just looking at the pictures. Mink, marten and fisher tracks are a bit more round with distinct pad and separate toes, with the 5th pinky toe not or barely visible with claws showing.

 

[1ADAM12]

I expierenced my first pine martin on the summit of Mount Marshall two Octobers ago. He was begging for the combos we were eating!

 

[MarkL]

-While climbing Pierce on 3/19, something ran across and off the trail ahead of me. I caught it out of the top corner of my eye, so didn't get a good look. It was too low-slung to be a fox, so I guessed it was a marten. This was a few minutes above Mizpeh Hut.
-On 3/6 in the Adirondacks, a marten got into my pack on the way to Couchsachraga. The strap had broken, so I left it beside the path until I came back. I was away ~40 minutes total. It got only the remnant one of my sandwiches, so our expedition was not endangered. The other two with me got a glimpse of the marten, though I didn't see it. On a previous trip, 3/14/00, I'd left some stuff at Times Square while we did Sant. Something got into it and dragged a couple of items away.
-Attached is a zoomed and cropped shot of another marten, taken 3/14/00 (the day I finished my "W") on the way up to Times Square. I don't know how far they range. Maybe this one followed us up to TS.

 

[Waumbek]

weasels

It sounds like these curious little members of the weasel family are doing well. They've been on the NH state threatened list since the '70s but they're making a comeback in No. NH. I think there have been too many of their bigger weasel cousins, fisher, right around here for martens to thrive. I see fisher often but not martens. A third member of the NH weasel family also hangs around here--ermine. If you have mice in your basement, walls, attic, sooner or later an ermine turns up to deal with them. I had a very companionable ermine living in the basement until the cat took a dislike to it.
Too much competition, I guess.

 

[DaveSunRa]

Fisher Cat

I snapped of a picture of this Fisher Cat last year coming down from HJ's

http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=80589248&size=o