I climbed into my elevated deer stand yesterday about 6PM just to
sit and watch the woods. After a half hour I noticed a small bit of
movement, and low and behold a fisher walked/jumped into view less than
30' away. What's a fisher? Think mink on steroids, or, roughly, a very
skinny, but very large, cat with short legs. Beautiful animal! It
actively poked its nose here and there, scampered about, and generally
entertained me for over a minute. And the E-1? Back in the cabin,
regretfully. The fisher finally worked its way away from me, but then
it turned a 180 and moved up the path I had taken to my stand. Closer,
closer, until it walked less than 2' away from the base of the ladder to
my stand. It jumped onto a rotten log all but directly below me; it
was now no more than 14' away from me, straight down. I took my
imaginary E-1, cranked the 14-54 lens to 54mm, and took some
frame-filling, if imaginary, shots. It was an absolutely magic couple
of minutes. I've never in my 65 years been that close for that long to
a fisher. But one can't take a photo if one doesn't have a camera
along. Next time I'm in that stand I'll bring the E-1 along.
There's a decent (better than anything I took) shot of a fisher at
www.borealforest.org/zoo/fisher.htm.
Dean
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