Monday, March 7, 2022

Who's tracks these are, I think I know.........

 I enjoy seeing tracks in the snow and trying to figure out what made them, how big of an animal (or human), which direction it was traveling and how fast, etc.

The shovel handle has underlined a squirrel track. This animal was moving left to right. It's hind feet make the larger, print. Front feet land first, then hind feet come to land in front of the front feet so it can spring forward on its powerful back legs.
The two pics above are rabbit tracks. Just like the squirrel, the hind feet are ahead of the front feet. So, the rabbit is traveling in the direction my foot is "traveling". The more stretched out the tracks, the faster the rabbit is running.

In the above picture, I see three sets of rabbit tracks (left, middle and right) with fox tracks going down the middle.
In the pics with gloves, I see cat tracks. Cats usually place their hind feet in or very nearly in the print made by their front feet. Look for toe marks to indicate direction of travel.
This doesn't look good. Another form of "wild life" activity? These are vehicle tracks indicating someone had a rough time in the snow. Be careful out there.
My stick is "underlining" turkey tracks. This bird was walking from left to right.
Here we have cat tracks on the left, mouse tracks on the right and deer tracks underneath. Busy night for the animals.

The toe of my boot is pointing at a mouse track. This mouse was traveling away from my boot.
I am pretty sure this final picture has fox tracks, but I believe there are some cat prints, too. Plus I see a couple of deer prints and mouse tracks. There is much wildlife activity while we sleep.



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