Fisher cats on Cape cod

[JFigliuolo]

Originally Posted by moosh

My buddy captured a picture of a fisher cat the other night on his motion detector camera which he uses for hunting and got picture of a fisher , the first one seen on the cape it was in the Times today. they say they make a god awful scream when they kill something has anyone ever heard this when they were out fishing in the wee hours ???I get spooked enough when Im alone, with out hearing that

got 'em that cruise by our house... WICKED loud screetchers. Mainly in the spring when maiting.

[Rockfish9]

Originally Posted by JFigliuolo

got 'em that cruise by our house... WICKED loud screetchers. Mainly in the spring when maiting.

exactly.... most of the screetching is to attract a mate...they are highly migratory, and unless there is a female denned up, they will move on after exhausting the local food supply.

They are a great reintroduction story... extinct from mass in the early 1900's a few live trapped from Vermont and reintroduced into the state now has a expanding population that inhabits areas that it did not even in colonial times...

they are elusive creatures, and the only mamal that makes a habit out of dining on porcupines....the attack starts by attacking the face, biting the slow moving tree pig until it no longer can see, it then flips them and one swift bite to the juglar and they wait for the porky to expire... then eat their prize from the belly/quilless side, leaving the skin behind.... they do get quilled on occasion, when I trapped, I always got a few each winter that had a few quills in them... mostly younger specimins...