Tracking

[Rick]

This is for our less experienced members. Do you know the animal this track belongs to? In the last picture, there are two tracks. The one in the upper left is the same as the first two pictures. Can you name the animal the track in the middle of the 3rd picture belongs to? I'll give you a hint. The skull in pic 4 is the same kind of animal that made the track in pic 3!

[MMonette]

I know, I've been seeing a ton of those tracks lately.

[RangerXanatos]

I'd have to say a young deer and the other track I find hard to make out so I'll have to take a long shot and guess Raccoon?

p.s. I figured the deer out first and when I tried to get a better look at the other track I had to save it to try to enlarge it and it came up with the name as deer4.

Daniel

[klkak]

I see deer tracks and raccoon tracks and the skull is a coon skull.

[trax]

I see deer tracks and raccoon tracks and the skull is a coon skull.

I concur, and although I suspect the Coors Light can was left by a human...it could have been the 'coon.

And I only added my .02 cuz I suspect that klkak is not one of our "less experienced" people when it comes to tracking...

[klkak]

This is for our less experienced members.

I am sorry. I missed the less experienced part. My bad.

[Rick]

Well, you are all correct. I don't think the raccoon skull is from the one that left the tracks. As for the beer can (shrug).

Craziest thing. I found a baseball in the middle of the woods. A baseball. It was under a small bush. The only thing I can figure is a coyote made off with it from the backyard of a nearby sub-division.

[trax]

I knocked one out of the park last summer Rick....could have just recently landed...

[Rick]

You know, it was a bit scorched. Probably did that on re-entry.

[Rick]

This is another one for the less experienced members. If you look closely at the pics you'll see poop. A lot of poop. Can you tell me what animal made it and why it's all in this one spot? I'll tell you this is along a fairly well used animal trail next to a small creek. (I wish the pics were better but I'm limited on the size of the pic I can post. I'll start getting better close ups to compensate).

[Stealth]

im going to guess fox

[Rick]

Sorry. Not a fox.

[klkak]

"I know what this is. It's an espresso maker" "No wait. It's a snowcone machine"

[crashdive123]

Too many movies. Now you sounding like Ahnold.

[canid]

no, no... it's a microwave oven.

[Blood Groove]

Hmmmm it looks like my dogs poop (It's my job to shovel it), so I'm going to say a wolf! Plus everyone on this forum loves wolves.

[canid]

we seem to have something like a consensus that it is the spoor of a carnivore, and i will add that i agree it looks canid [not me personaly, i have an alibi]

[klkak]

Its hard to tell without being able to judge the size. But I'm pretty sure I know what it is and why so much of it in one place.

[nell67]

coyote......

[Rick]

Give that lady a cigar!! Coyote is correct. They use their urine and feces to mark out their territory and as a warning to other coyote. As I said, this is on a well used animal trail next to a small creek so it was a perfect and well chosen spot to mark.

For the less experienced, you can easily identify coyote feces because it is 1. about the size of German Shepard feces and 2. unlike a domesticated dog, it will contain hair from the small rodents, etc. that it eats.

Nice job, Nell!