Identity Crisis (ID'd as Pine Marten)

Maudi

Looking to get a positive id on this beauty.
Someone said Mink
I reakon its a pine martin..
Found just outside kilmac wicklow

richiedel123

Maudi wrote: »

Looking to get a positive id on this beauty.
Someone said Mink
I reakon its a pine martin..
Found just outside kilmac wicklow

It's a pine marten. Mink is normally more black. Sometimes they have a tiny white spot on their chest. Pine marten is way bigger bushy tail with a big yellowy cream patch on their neck .

axe2grind

Glen of the downs?

2 roadkills there during a couple days couple years back

Maudi

axe2grind wrote: »

Glen of the downs?

2 roadkills there during a couple days couple years back

Bit further north..just before kilmac.

fryup

axe2grind wrote: »

Glen of the downs?

2 roadkills there during a couple days couple years back

proves that there numbers are on the up

axe2grind

fryup wrote: »

proves that there numbers are on the up

Indeed, indicates a good local population, but also how unfriendly our motorways are to wildlife

Maudi

axe2grind wrote: »

Glen of the downs?

2 roadkills there during a couple days couple years back

Along that stretch yep..
Its a high kill rate area for wildlife

Half-cocked

I know the gamekeeper in Kilruddery Estate which isn't very far from Kilmac, about 3 years ago the Grey Squirrel population crashed. We suspected the arrival of Pine Martens and sure enough they started to appear on trail cams and as roadkill. While the roadkills are very sad, it does point to a healthy population.

magicbastarder

i've often wondered if they should introduce some to the phoenix park. would be a lot cheaper than the squirrel cull there.

Zoo4m8

Half-cocked wrote: »

I know the gamekeeper in Kilruddery Estate which isn't very far from Kilmac, about 3 years ago the Grey Squirrel population crashed. We suspected the arrival of Pine Martens and sure enough they started to appear on trail cams and as roadkill. While the roadkills are very sad, it does point to a healthy population.

Around two years ago a well known forester and author implied that it was unlikely that I had seen a dead Marten on the Glen of the Downs road.. We are beside Killruddery and this winter our long standing population of Grey Squirrels has disappeared..

recedite

There is healthy but isolated population of reds surviving in Dunran woods near Ashford, not too far south of there. Will be interesting to see if they start to expand northwards back out of that area.

Maudi

Zoo4m8 wrote: »

Around two years ago a well known forester and author implied that it was unlikely that I had seen a dead Marten on the Glen of the Downs road.. We are beside Killruddery and this winter our long standing population of Grey Squirrels has disappeared..

You can now tell him otherwise