We are overrun by these critters, so there are few plants I can grow in the garden unless I put down deer spray every week or so.
Posted on 06/10/2021 8:55:08 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
Heard a fawn crying in our woods yesterday and went to investigate. About 150 yds from our house I saw a tiny fawn - couldn't have been more than a few weeks old - with a small fisher on its back, trying to bite the fawn's neck. Fired a shot over the fisher and it took off, along with another, much larger, fisher I hadn't seen.
Appears as though mother fisher was teaching the youngster how to hunt. Fawn was exhausted, but recovered in a few minutes and took off.
Never thought a fisher would attack a fawn, but perhaps the mother was young and bolted.
Anybody ever heard of fishers attacking deer?
I shot a 3x3 one year. He had a few abscesses in his rump from a well placed antler stab.
We are overrun by these critters, so there are few plants I can grow in the garden unless I put down deer spray every week or so.
Upon first reading a small bird came to mind. Never heard of the four-legged critter till now.
I used to hunt deer. Now, I just enjoy watching them in the yard. I photograph them now, instead of shooting them. A few years back, I thought that there was one Doe with twins coming by every day. When I examined the photos... I realized that it was two different Does, both with twins. I enjoyed that. Yeah! I’m a “BAD GUY”!
When Mr G got home, he opened the door to his van and our blue heeler hopped out and ran into the woods. Moments later a doe chased him out and they both ran around the van a couple of times before the dog ducked underneath. Mr G just sat in the van with both his mouth and the door open while all this went on.
Not personally seen but heard of it happening in deep snow.
Link says nothing
Think weasel but with a fancy name. They are rather scarce here in the southeast but then the coyotes are known to follow pregnant does around and will eat the fawns right after being birthed.
Mother Nature can be quite cruel at times...
I am sure its just another example of globull warming causing gentle creatures to go berserk.
Perhaps it is time to hunt them
Fischer are very common here in NH.
So much so the double A baseball team is called the New Hampshire Fischer Cats.
Yeah, I’d never heard of a fisher either and assumed it was a King Fisher bird. I’m glad someone posted a link.
Do they taste good?
Never heard of a fisher. Upon looking it up, the habitat explains why a lot of others don’t know what it is either.
Just what I thought when I read the headline. Scratching my head with my first sips of morning caffeine and saying "But he is dead, Jim"!
Couldn’t help but notice - NO ONE HAS A PICTURE OF THIS THING!!!! A Fisher must resemble a Snipe.
Where’s the PICTURE??
I clicked the link to Wikipedia that someone else posted. It looks like a little badger or Tasmanian Devil.
>> You don’t want fishers ripping your flesh, to be blunt.
Or weasels, or barking pumpkins.
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