Feeding

For a successful hunting marten hunter must familiar with its biology, have experienced husky, be physically hardy, clever and observant, patient and mature, well oriented in woodland. Weasel distributed wherever there is forest. She prefers the muffled, old forest sites, with plenty of hollow trees. In the hollows of marten live and breed in these shelters, it outwaits bad weather, extreme cold, snow and rain, staying out of two or three days. Lives mainly in spruce and mixed forests.

Rarely found in the pine marten, clean elections. Marten climbs trees beautifully and cleverly goes horseback leaping from tree to tree, going this way hundreds of meters. Leads mainly nocturnal. Usually has no permanent nests, but the hiding by day in hollow tree, squirrel nest, or simply in windbreaks. Weasel – pronounced predator, agile hunter. During the feeding ranges tens of kilometers.

Preys on – differently. Maybe, like a cat, mouse guard in ambush, skillfully sneak up sitting grouse and squirrels. Yet its main food – small rodents, insects, berries, rowan and bilberry, is very fond of honey wild bees. By chernotropu to find traces of martens, pretty hard. However, with sufficient experience, subtle signs of her whereabouts can be found in feces, which she likes to leave on fallen wind, trees, stumps and forest trails. Marten excrement have form a length of about six or seven inches, spirally twisted, and their ends are pointed. In our republic, hunting for fur animals begins with the first Saturday in November and ends on the last Sunday of January.