more track ID questions???

[hickstick]

went out to check the trail cameras and found these tracks.  went right by one of the trail cams but like the bonehead I am, I hadn't armed it 2 weeks ago when I changed the film.  any help would be appreciated...



added a 35mm film can for reference:


shot of the gate (size 10 boot print for ref):

[Killdeer]

Skunk?
Looks a bit weaselly to me.
Killdeer

[John P]

Its hard to tell but I'am thinking like Killdeer maybe a martin?

[Steve Kendrot]

Its a fisher.

[John P]

Thanks Steve,thats what I was thinking!!!!!!

[Steve Kendrot]

That 1-2-1 pattern is classic mustelid gait. Five toes and that c-shaped pad is a giveaway too. Nice pics. Too bad the camera wasn't on!

[Guru]

I was thinking fisher too....but compared to the boot....I don't think there's any way it could be....seems way to big......

[adkmountainken]

fisher is usually more rounded and they travel in a loping gate, not straight line. looks like it melted a little bit making it look bigger, maybe skunk or grinner?

[RAU]

I think its a big boar coon track. They should be out and about now too looking for ladies. That back coon foot looks just like those 1st 2 pics to me, almost like a human baby.

[Bill Carlsen]

That, my friend, is a Fisher. The book I have has what looks like a mirror image of exactly the picture you have. Here's one at a feeder across the pond from our house. We do not often get them on our trail cam but this one showed his face about a week ago.

[Orion]

Yep, I'd vote for fisher as well.  Possums (grinners) don't run like that.  They waddle more than they run.  Skunks seldom do either.  Coon tracks are narrower.  Melting has made these look a little bigger, but fishers have pretty good size tracks.

[Ru]

fisher is my guess also. Heres one lurking in my woods      

[rg176bnc]

Thats a fisher.  Skunks dont like to travel in the snow if they can avoid it.

[hickstick]

I was thinkin fisher myself as these pics were taken right below one of my treestands.  my hunting bud hunted out of it twice this past fall and both times saw the fisher...

I might have seen him too...one night after dark, walking thru the horse pasture adjacent to this wood lot I thought I saw an odd looking lump just off the treeline...I shined my mini-mag LED over there and it wasn't powerful enough to illuminate the creature but its eyes reflected back...I took a few steps in its direction and it took off along the treeline...

[Izzy]

Fisher.

[Steve Kendrot]

Coon tracks would be 2x2 front and rear next to each other. This is classic mustelid. I've worked with fisher and a big male can have a foot nearly the size of a coyote.