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Wildlife Reports => Toronto Wildlife => Topic started by: dodo on July 05, 2014, 10:37:20 PM

Title: Brickworks mink family
Post by: dodo on July 05, 2014, 10:37:20 PM

I was at the Brickworks in the afternoon and saw 5 mink cross the trail one after another. I read that mink families travel in single file like this with the young ones following the mother.

Title: Re: Brickworks mink family
Post by: paul_reeves on July 06, 2014, 06:41:05 AM

I was at the Brickworks yesterday between 9 and 2 and didn't see any Mink. Which trail?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Brickworks mink family
Post by: dodo on July 06, 2014, 08:53:04 AM

When I saw them I was entering the Brickwork using an unofficial trail.At the western edge of the Brickworks there is a boardwalk that crosses the western side of a large pond.(There are some water lillies there and often a large snapping turtle.) Just south of the boardwalk there is a small unofficial dirt trail that goes straight up the steep hill.The mink were crossing above an evergreen tree that grows half way up the hill beside the trail.I did not try to follow them because I was wearing shorts and there is lots of poison ivy on the hill.

Title: Re: Brickworks mink family
Post by: paul_reeves on July 06, 2014, 11:10:10 AM

Thanks.