Photo 58175580, (c) Derek Ziomber, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by Derek Ziomber

Attribution © Derek Ziomber
some rights reserved
Uploaded by dziomber dziomber
Source iNaturalist
Associated observations

Photos / Sounds

What

American Mink (Neogale vison)

Observer

dziomber

Date

December 2019

Place

Private

Description

Myself and a friend saw a mink poke its head out of the larger hole on this tree during the Christmas Bird Count, then turn around and put it's backside outside of the larger hole on this tree, then urinate outside of the tree while its head was inside of the tree before going back into the tree cavity. This happened over the course of perhaps 5 or 10 minutes. It would seem as though the mink was using this tree as a nest, but I was unable to get a picture of the mink on my phone.

I've taken two observations of the tree where the mink was seen in order to provide a more accurate GPS location of the tree. This is the first observation of the set, showing a picture of the smaller of the two cavity holes on the tree.

Sizes