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Originally Posted by Reeves1
Lived in Sandspit for 3 years....
A road foreman saw a Martin riding a Deer & chased it down to help the Deer.
This was in the mid 90s.
I've had Martin show up quickly to claim gut piles.
Find it hard to believe they can kill a Deer though ?
I'm thinking it's road kills etc the Martin are feasting on.
Maybe new born as well ? They are TINY !
Biggest problem I could see are the Raccoons there, on every Island. Way over populated with them !
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I find it hard to believe as well.
A Martens mouth is not big enough to get a good enough bit to do any serious damage to a Deer. They will eat from a Deer or Moose carcass but I think killing even a fawn would be impossible for such a small animal.
However, I wouldn't rule it out entirely, we don't know as much as we think we know about the world around us.
I knew a fellow who lived up here for over 30 years and still didn't know that such a thing as a Flying Squirrel existed or that there are woodpeckers almost as big as crows in the Province.
Actually a lot of people in the north have never seen or heard of a Pileated Woodpecker.