Fisher Cats in NJ

[Bruce Edward Litton]

One of my brother's wife & daughter sighted a fisher cat in Wall Twnsp. It's a large member of the weasel family, sort of like a wolverine, made high pitched cries. They ran home & looked it up online, amazed. This specie was extinct in NJ, due to all the clear cutting for iron mining, 1800's. Everything seems to be coming back. Before you know it, we really will have mountain lions. I just hope no wolverines. Those we can do without, I suppose.

 

[Rusty Spinner]

They've been back for several years or more here in NJ. They remain a rare sight, but I found tracks along a stream here in north NJ this spring of one.

 

[Stevester]

Doesn't surprise me that you would see them in a remote area. I have seen mink along the South Branch across from the ball field in Califon and otters in the Mascoma River just outside of Hanover, NH. Wildlife can be remarkably adaptable, as the number of bears in NJ attests.

Steve

 

[mtthwnvk]

One of my brother's wife & daughter sighted a fisher cat in Wall Twnsp. It's a large member of the weasel family, sort of like a wolverine, made high pitched cries. They ran home & looked it up online, amazed. This specie was extinct in NJ, due to all the clear cutting for iron mining, 1800's. Everything seems to be coming back. Before you know it, we really will have mountain lions. I just hope no wolverines. Those we can do without, I suppose.

I found tracks on canistear reservoir last fall and had someone knowledgable identify them as a fisher cat. Haven't seen any since, I don't know about mining, I just figured someone on here got to them and told them we've got too much pressure on nj waters and that they better leave


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[Bruce Edward Litton]

Doesn't surprise me that you would see them in a remote area. I have seen mink along the South Branch across from the ball field in Califon and otters in the Mascoma River just outside of Hanover, NH. Wildlife can be remarkably adaptable, as the number of bears in NJ attests.

Steve

We fished Hopatcong last Thursday & a mink was sighted. Joe at Dows said, "They're all over around the lake." My son & I spotted one about a year & a half ago on a Hopatcong bulkhead. Also spotted one along Neshanic River. And I was just telling my wife about the fisher cat while we sat beside Bedminster Hike & Bike Trail, that they're in the weasel family. Just minutes later, a weasel ran across the path.

 

[JOE.T]

One of my brother's wife & daughter sighted a fisher cat in Wall Twnsp. It's a large member of the weasel family, sort of like a wolverine, made high pitched cries. They ran home & looked it up online, amazed. This specie was extinct in NJ, due to all the clear cutting for iron mining, 1800's. Everything seems to be coming back. Before you know it, we really will have mountain lions. I just hope no wolverines. Those we can do without, I suppose.

I didn't see one, however Brachy and I where floating about a week ago on the WB and we heard one.

At first we thought it was kids screaming or someone being chopped up.It's a wild high pitched scream.

I've been hunting and fishing for 40 years in NY and NJ,and never heard that before.

 

[mtthwnvk]

I didn't see one, however Brachy and I where floating about a week ago on the WB and we heard one.

At first we thought it was kids screaming or someone being chopped up.It's a wild high pitched scream.

I've been hunting and fishing for 40 years in NY and NJ,and never heard that before.

Squatch.


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[JOE.T]

Squatch.


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It didn't sound like a Squatch to me.

Fisher for sure. Sounded just like this

fisher cat sounds - Yahoo Search Results