Anyone know what this is?

[TeleRoss]

I saw this little guy up on Triumph today. Kinda like a little skinny fox like thing.

Edited July 26, 2005 by snoboy

[mikebell]

weasel?

[Blake]

reddish on the belly? - Pine Martin

[TeleRoss]

Pine Martin was about the only thing that I could think of but I've never seen one before...that's kinda cool.

Really curious little guy/gal, came up pretty close before going around a little rib and out of sight. Saw him/her/gal up pretty high on Triumph, wonder what he/she was looking for up there?

[Blake]

Pine martens are like foxes that climb trees and eat squirrels. Brown on the back, red on the belly. Did you find a neutrino up there as well?

[Rad]

Yes, a pine marten.

 

Good photo. They're usually shy.

 

They like to eat

[catbirdseat]

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[thelawgoddess]

i got the same message. wtf? i wanna see!

[dkemp]

Hmm, like in Teleross other post, I get a box with red X. Bummer.

[TeleRoss]

Yeah sorry about that. The site where I have my photos hosted is a pice of shit. I'll see if I can get them up somewhere else.

[Alpinfox]

Yeah sorry about that. The site where I have my photos hosted is a pice of shit. I'll see if I can get them up somewhere else.

 

HERE is a free web-hosting photo site.

[catbirdseat]

Anything as important as a snafflehound should be uploaded to the cc.com gallery.

[TeleRoss]

Ok there's an attachment on the original post. Phew....dealing with photos is a frigin pain.

There's also photos posted in the gallery.

[Toast]

Pine martens are like foxes that climb trees and eat squirrels. Brown on the back, red on the belly. Did you find a neutrino up there as well?

 

I got to get me one of those. Fuckin squirrels are eating all the bark on my japanes maple

[thelawgoddess]

Ok there's an attachment on the original post. Phew....dealing with photos is a frigin pain.

There's also photos posted in the gallery.

yay. cool!

[goatboy]

Was the marten on the NE Ridge, or at the notch, or where was he???

[Alex]

Its not a pine marten, martens are larger and you'd not see one in the alpine. (If you must know, I worked with pine martens doing wildlife bio one year). I believe thats a long tailed weasel.

[spicoli11]

I was visited by one of these "weasels" up high recently. It wanted my smoked salmon.....pretty agressive for a little guy

[EWolfe]

From Google:

Long-tailed weasel:

[Dru]

 

The short tailed ones are hyper!

[TeleRoss]

hmmm. It didn't look like a weasel at all. Much more fox-like. It was up high on the NE Ridge. I had maybe done about 4 raps or so when I saw him. I think I was coming up to a flattish section below a rise. So maybe 2/3 of the way up the ridge. Weird.

[Dru]

But... your photo doesn't look foxlike at all. Even if Alpinfox is a weasel.

[Alex]

yeah I am not sure. looking at the larger pic now, it does look like a marten, but if there is a marten on the ridge on Triumph (that will survive the week, anyway) I'd be pretty impressed - they are typically forest dwelling and eat (alot of) small rodents. The marten in your pic might be a juvinile or a female, which tend to be alot smaller (700g or less) than the males (which weigh about 1 kg adult).

 

when we were working with them, we would have to sedate them before we could handle them. A pissed off weasel is pure 110% viscous rage!

[sobo]

...A pissed off weasel is pure 110% viscous rage!

 

Sounds a lot like most of my old GFs...

[TeleRoss]

It just struck me as being fox-like. That was the closest resemblance I could think of. Especially its face and tail.

Attached is a photo of a marten from a web search. That is pretty much exactly what it's face looked like.