Would you like some peanut butter and jelly on your bread next time?

[J&J]

Early Sunday morning (April 3) my wife, June, threw out some old bread for the birds to eat. Well, we had an unexpected visitor that came for the bread. A Fisher.

I quickly grabbed my camera and stealthily took some pictures from inside the house as the Fisher wandered about after the bread. It made three separate appearances over the next 1/2 hour.

It was quite the treat to have such a close up view of the Fisher, at one point it was no more than three feet away from me, with only a glass door separating us.

Another great sighting!

John

 

[bobandgeri]

Awesome photos!!!!! We've seen them in our back yard before but never so close - Wow!! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Mohamed Ellozy]

Wow ...

 

[Cymbidium]

I have never seen one of these furry little brown guys. Great pics!

 

[MichaelJ]

Excellent photos! What an opportunity - thanks for sharing!

 

[bikehikeskifish]

"I'd like a rodent sandwich with Dijon mustard, please"

Awesome photos!

Tim

 

[sierra]

WOW those are the awesome pictures, I love the first one with the teeth showing,magnificent.

 

[Kevin Rooney]

Those are great pics. The first one says it all - look at the size of those lower incisors. And those claws are always out, like a bear's. No wonder they're such an awesome predator.

Have only ever seen one once, and that was on a winter hiking trip into Baxter. One paralleled us for a few hundred yards as neared the cabin we'd rented. IIRC, I think Blue saw it too.

 

[Jim lombard]

Really nice pictures. I've had several close encounters. A small one was trying to get after my cat and I literally chased him out of the backyard into the woods. He ran then jumped into the trees and was gone in a flash. I've tracked them many times in my back woods. Thanks for sharing!

 

[gaiagirl]

Wow! Sweet photos!
Kevin --- Fisher's have claws that are semi-retractable. They need them for climbing and handling prey, but they also are able to pull them in to keep them sharp as well.

 

[Lefty E]

Great timing for you...a few years ago I was sitting, resting with my back on aa huge root blowdown, while on an early spring walk in the woods of Milan NH...suddenly I heard a commotion to my left and just as I glanced down, a snowshoe hare was running for his life..right over my left boot..and a fisher cat was a few feet behind him..I waited a few and followed, but gave up after seeing it was going to be a long tracking session..maybe all the way to Manchester for opening day of the baseball season...maybe not that, but the first part is true...

 

[mtruman]

Amazing! Great shots! I will say that I'd only want to be this close with at least that glass door in between though. Ornery little critters.

 

[Kevin Judy and Emma]

Wow!

Sweet shots! Here kitty, kitty... I'm jealous, really great shots!

KDT

 

[BF]

Awesome! Great photos. Thanks for sharing.

 

[vegematic]

Wow! How lucky!

I've never seen a fisher in real life but have seen pine martens on three occasions.
-vegematic

 

[Silverfox]

Great pics of the fearsome beast

 

[1HappyHiker]

Simply awesome photos! Thanks John for posting, and thanks June for tossing the bread into your yard!
As I'd indicated in a similar thread, sometimes you get better views of wildlife just by staying at home!

 

[Paradox]

Wow! National Geographic stuff!

 

[Maddy]

Great pics. Thanks for posting them.

 

[Ed'n Lauky]

Ditto to all the above. Those are super great pictures.