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Mapache (Procyon lotor)Observ.
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This was a moderate sized, clear print about 5 cm (2 in) across with 5 toe prints and faint claw marks which rule out canids and cats. The toe pad marks were arranged in a fairly even crescent across the front of the foot print suggesting mustelid. The tracks went up a slope on a fallen log then disappeared. The animal would have had to jump from bare patch to bare patch, or climbed a tree. The track seemed way too big for mink, the one common mustelid in the area. I know that this is well outside the recognized range of Fisher in Ontario, although it was recently documented at the tip of Long Point in Norfolk Co. to the south and there are resident Fishers northeast of Toronto, within the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority jurisdiction. There are also a 2 postings west & south of Milton: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/12784285, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10176778.
