Saturday, December 26, 2009

Interesting Animal Tracks in the Snow

Lots of neat animal prints in the snow in the back yard yesterday. The next five appear to me to be rabbit or hare tracks. A friend suggests they are squirrel tracks -- he may well be right.












This serpentine trail must be from a mouse. The other, shallower marks in the next photo branch off from the mouse trail and I'm not sure what to make of them.










This one shows the mouse trail crossing the "freeway" of back-and-forth tracks of a larger animal crossing our property and going into the woods behind the old grange next door:

The last five images show what I think must be woodchuck tracks; we have one around here, we've seen him several times; though a friend says these look like possum tracks, and I hear there are possums in these woods. You can easily see how the claws are dragged backhand, forward, then the paw is placed down in front. Really interesting tracks. Click on the images for a better view.







All of these are animal tracks. They look to be the same animal, going back and forth.

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