Beautiful Snowy Day with Animal Tracks
@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
Canada
January 7, 2016 1:22am CST
A fresh snow covered everything when we awoke this morning. The trees were heavy with white. One thing I love about the new snow is looking for animal tracks. You can see which animals have been around when they leave their tracks in the snow.
Today we saw some bunny tracks and the tracks of a bobcat. I'm wondering whether it's the same bobcat who came around a couple of years ago. Of course there were also some deer prints. The deer come by just about every day. I also saw where the ravens walked. Those prints make me laugh.
What animal signs do you see?
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
7 Jan 16
If you have a bobcat that bunny better watch out.
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@GardenGerty (161013)
• United States
8 Jan 16
@AbbyGreenhill Red tail hawks are regular post sitters around here. They seem to be everywhere.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
7 Jan 16
@jstory07 He won't stop at one. We've lost a lot of bunnies to red tail hawks.
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@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
7 Jan 16
Snow sounds like bliss right now. We do not even get snow here in winter. It must be so magical to see those prints in the snow @Sheilamarie78 . :-)
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@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
8 Jan 16
Yes, it is, Catherine. I hope reading about snow cooled you down. I know it's really hot where you are right now.
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@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
8 Jan 16
@marlina Because I've lived in New England and Quebec, the amount of snow we get here seems easy peasy to me. There's lots of snow higher up on the mountains, but close to the lake it's not very deep.
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@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
8 Jan 16
We have lots of both around here, too. The squirrels have burrowed down and aren't as visible as they are at other seasons.
@TypicalRussian (747)
• Budennovsk, Russian Federation
7 Jan 16
popular pic is called "cat changed its mind"
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@JudyEv (342342)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Jan 16
In the sand around our big shed we see kangaroo tracks and ones made by a racehorse goanna (monitor lizard) that lives down there. The kangaroos leave toe-marks and, if they're using all fours there will be drag marks from their tails.
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@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
8 Jan 16
That's an image I love to think about. Do you see the actual animal very often or just the tracks?
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@JudyEv (342342)
• Rockingham, Australia
8 Jan 16
@Sheilamarie78 The roos come and go continually and we see the monitor lizards from time to time. There are a couple of young ones around too.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
7 Jan 16
@Sheilamarie78 As we do not get any snow,we can't look for animal tracks.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
8 Jan 16
@Sheilamarie78 There are some cats,we see more often.
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@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
8 Jan 16
How about in the sand or dirt? When everything is paved the animals can be hard to detect.
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@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
8 Jan 16
Yes, especially the animals we don't actually see. They can come by at night or only when people are not around.
@garymarsh6 (23412)
• United Kingdom
7 Jan 16
As I live in a town we only see mostly dogs cats and the odd fox.
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@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
8 Jan 16
My granddaughters in France miss seeing the snow and playing in it, too. It's true, though, you have to be set up to deal with it.
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@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
8 Jan 16
Are you in a part of the state that gets much snow?
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@KristenH (33393)
• Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
8 Jan 16
@Sheilamarie78 Not around the snowbelt area. But snow will be falling again this weekend.
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@DianneN (247184)
• United States
13 Jan 16
@Sheilamarie78 Lol. No, but the birds leave other things. ;)
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@paigea (36315)
• Canada
7 Jan 16
I have seen rabbit tracks since it snowed and I was glad as I haven't seen the rabbits for months! Our cat tracks are every where. Something small like a mouse, the neighbour's dog tracks. Deer are hear often too. Lots of bird tracks around the feeders. Maybe a weasel; not sure.
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@FibroGodess (540)
• United States
7 Jan 16
I'm kind of close up to the road, but often see tracks of small birds and squirrels, and an occasional wood chuck.
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@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
8 Jan 16
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck . . .
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
13 Jan 16
@Sheilamarie78 I'm not sure - I do see occasional bunches of feathers about, but not sure if it was cats that got them.
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@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
13 Jan 16
@jaboUK I suppose it could be wild animals you don't know about, but it's most likely cats.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
8 Jan 16
i'd love to be surrounded by more wildlife here 's i always enjoyed gettin' out 'n seein' who'd been by, leavin' their marks in the snow. 'round here fer the most part 'tis cottontail, a few jack rabbits, skunks, feral cats 'n the neighbors pups.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
11 Jan 16
@Sheilamarie78 yes ma'am. jest recoverin' from a 2 day blizzard from a week 'go. dang thingy shut down most'f the eastern side'f the state fer a few days 'n most'f the west texas panhandle's well.
@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
11 Jan 16
I love hearing owls. We have barred owls and little saw whet owls.
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@TheHorse (220488)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Jan 16
@Sheilamarie78 I wonder if it's barn owls that we have out at the barn.
@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
8 Jan 16
@Sheilamarie78 Yes, and this year we have had much more than usual, with parts of the country suffering from terrible floods.We have been lucky, thank goodness.
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@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
8 Jan 16
We used to have a den of foxes up the hill from us when we lived in Vermont. I used to like seeing the mother take out her babies in the spring.
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@Elizaby (6902)
• Pensacola, Florida
8 Jan 16
@Sheilamarie78 These have come over from the woods near the golf course and roam om the retention pond area and occasionally come in the yard.
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@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
11 Jan 16
Hmmm. It's not a wild cat because they have retractable claws. Is it some kind of dog? ( Dogs leave claw marks but I don't recognize these tracks.)
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@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
12 Jan 16
@BruceRed Panda had come to my mind, but since I've never seen their tracks, I didn't want to say. Thanks for posting these tracks. Pandas come to mind for us foreigners when we think of China. They are amazing animals -- at least in pictures!
@BruceRed (30)
• China
12 Jan 16
@Sheilamarie78 You analyzed it in fine detail. But it's not a dog. It's panda. Pandas are revered as an unofficial national mascot in china.
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