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Baby Fisher Attacking Baby Deer
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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?


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To: GreyHoundSailor

I shot a 3x3 one year. He had a few abscesses in his rump from a well placed antler stab.


21 posted on 06/10/2021 9:52:57 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: GreyHoundSailor
The does all around us are wont to start stomping their front legs when you get nearby. If you yell at them, they take off. They are a lot less prone to taking off when the babies arrive. Mama dropped this baby on our property three years ago (June 16, 2018). She was off foraging during the day and she didn't hide this one very well.

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.


22 posted on 06/10/2021 10:07:13 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("Pour les vaincre il faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace")
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To: GreyHoundSailor

Upon first reading a small bird came to mind. Never heard of the four-legged critter till now.


23 posted on 06/10/2021 10:21:19 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: GreyHoundSailor

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”!


24 posted on 06/10/2021 10:39:25 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: GreyHoundSailor

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.


25 posted on 06/10/2021 11:04:22 PM PDT by Grammy (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: GreyHoundSailor

Not personally seen but heard of it happening in deep snow.


26 posted on 06/10/2021 11:06:44 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Link says nothing


27 posted on 06/10/2021 11:16:07 PM PDT by LibertyWoman ("Where there is no law, there is no liberty." Benjamin Rush)
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To: LibertyWoman

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...


28 posted on 06/11/2021 12:15:00 AM PDT by snuffy smiff (Vsetko Umiera! Build the Wall and build it tall, then build a gallows and hang them ALL!)
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To: GreyHoundSailor

I am sure its just another example of globull warming causing gentle creatures to go berserk.


29 posted on 06/11/2021 2:37:26 AM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Perhaps it is time to hunt them


30 posted on 06/11/2021 3:00:19 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: GreyHoundSailor

Fischer are very common here in NH.
So much so the double A baseball team is called the New Hampshire Fischer Cats.


31 posted on 06/11/2021 3:08:00 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Repeal The 17th

Yeah, I’d never heard of a fisher either and assumed it was a King Fisher bird. I’m glad someone posted a link.


32 posted on 06/11/2021 3:10:42 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: GreyHoundSailor

33 posted on 06/11/2021 3:11:25 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Chickensoup

Do they taste good?


34 posted on 06/11/2021 3:13:30 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: GreyHoundSailor

Never heard of a fisher. Upon looking it up, the habitat explains why a lot of others don’t know what it is either.


35 posted on 06/11/2021 3:55:37 AM PDT by FredSchwartz (What ever happened to common sense and simple logic?)
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To: Libloather
Fischer attacking -

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"!

36 posted on 06/11/2021 3:56:18 AM PDT by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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To: GreyHoundSailor

Couldn’t help but notice - NO ONE HAS A PICTURE OF THIS THING!!!! A Fisher must resemble a Snipe.


37 posted on 06/11/2021 4:04:13 AM PDT by Texas Hostage in a Blue State
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To: lefty-lie-spy

Where’s the PICTURE??


38 posted on 06/11/2021 4:06:27 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

I clicked the link to Wikipedia that someone else posted. It looks like a little badger or Tasmanian Devil.


39 posted on 06/11/2021 4:14:40 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: kiryandil

>> You don’t want fishers ripping your flesh, to be blunt.

Or weasels, or barking pumpkins.


40 posted on 06/11/2021 4:19:38 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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