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Yellow ferret in the woods?

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Weasel. I've seen them in 27 and 1. Usually at 9000+ feet although I did see one 1/2 mile upstream of Buffalo Crossing on the Black River. Spent a lot of time in that country many years ago. Very unusual to see one, probably seen three or four in my life, all in their summer coats.

 

Ermine is a weasel in it's white color phase. In winter, weasels turn white. Saw an Ermine/weasel riding up the ski lift at Sunrise in the late 70's. Surprised the heck out of me, only one I've ever seen. White as the snow with a black tipped tail. Hope you get a picture.

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Black footed ferrets rarely live in locations without prairie dogs, or outside of grasslands.

I am confident that it was an Arizona weasel, a subspecies variation of the long-tailed weasel.

The picture below was pulled off the internet and I take no credit for it.attachicon.gifimage.jpg

I have seen a lot of weasels in the past couple weeks...all of them were two legged.

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It would have been a Long-tailed Weasel and of the "bridled" form. Western forms have a mask while eastern forms do not. This is the only "ferret" found in Arizona besides the Black-footed Ferret. I saw one years ago in 4B.

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Thinking weasel too. Have seen them at blue ridge reservoir amongst the rocks.

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Black footed ferrets rarely live in locations without prairie dogs, or outside of grasslands.

I am confident that it was an Arizona weasel, a subspecies variation of the long-tailed weasel.

The picture below was pulled off the internet and I take no credit for it.attachicon.gifimage.jpg

I have seen a lot of weasels in the past couple weeks...all of them were two legged.

 

 

I thought you boys down there ran them all out of town a while back.

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Swivelhead Quote "Saw an Ermine/weasel riding up the ski lift at Sunrise...."

 

Imagine the attendants look when that weasel bought a lift pass.

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Actually there are weasels and martens up here in Northern AZ. I friend of mine saw a marten on a kaibab deer hunt last year. I believe they photographed it. Also Ermines have been confirmed as others have previously mentioned.

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A martin in Arizona would be a very rare sighting indeed since their historical range never entered Arizona.

 

The closest a true Ermine gets to Arizona would be NE Colorado. Weasels do turn white during the winter similar to hares and they keep their black tipped tails.

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Actually there are weasels and martens up here in Northern AZ. I friend of mine saw a marten on a kaibab deer hunt last year. I believe they photographed it. Also Ermines have been confirmed as others have previously mentioned.

 

Nope.

 

No Martin in AZ nor Ermine. No Fisher either.

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it was a weasel. nothing more, nothing less. i've seen a dozen or so, and they can vary quite a bit in color with really any mixture of brown/yellow, turning white in the winter.

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