- Field sightings:
- Tracks -
- mice/vole, snowshoe hare, possible cottontail?, weasels, coyote, moose
- Sign -
- scat, nibble marks, tooth marks, holes under the snow, caches/middens
- Notable sightings -
- Followed some snowshoe hare tracks to the actual animal (some students got some good pictures/video)
- Found a squirrel trail with blood drops, every track had a few blood drops with it
- Backtracked the trail and found the
transition from blood drops every track
to no blood drops at all, but didn't see
any predator tracks at that point, so it
didn't look like an attack. Might
have just injured its foot on a
stick/rock, the blood drops were pretty
small
- See also photos from 2016 - below,
right.
- Field
sightings:
- See photos to right
- Note question following last photo
- Summary Table -
| 2019 |
2/10/19 - |
|
| 2016 |
Columns: What species, What
sign, and Interpretation of sign (What
doing)  |
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on images to enlarge Photos (c) 2016 T Kittel  Aspen stripped bark  Red (Pine) Squirrel kitchen
("chickaree kitchen")
and cache entrance  Snowshoe Hare tracks, with impressions elevated above wind-eroded snow. Which way was the hare moving (towards or away from camera)? |