While enjoying a cold and uneventful muzzleloader hunt yesterday afternoon, I was entertained for about twenty minutes by a mink working a stream edge. Someone had apparently killed a deer a day or two earlier and had placed the gut pile in this shallow stream to try and minimize the disturbance to the area.
The mink emerged from the woods around 4:40 pm, just before sunset. He went to the area where the gut pile was located and began tugging away. He would then take pieces and cache them in a tree cavity next to the stream. I watched him do it at least 5 times and was able to capture a grainy, Bigfoot sighting quality video on my iPhone. The quality really took a dive after zooming.
The mink is in the crotch of a double maple in the beginning of the video and he makes a complete round trip in about 40 seconds. I got out of my tree at the around 5:15 at near dark and he was still at it.
I took a few stills too.
Enjoy !!
The mink emerged from the woods around 4:40 pm, just before sunset. He went to the area where the gut pile was located and began tugging away. He would then take pieces and cache them in a tree cavity next to the stream. I watched him do it at least 5 times and was able to capture a grainy, Bigfoot sighting quality video on my iPhone. The quality really took a dive after zooming.
The mink is in the crotch of a double maple in the beginning of the video and he makes a complete round trip in about 40 seconds. I got out of my tree at the around 5:15 at near dark and he was still at it.
I took a few stills too.
Enjoy !!
