For this assignment, I walked to Centennial woods and found various tracks there and some on the way as well. I surprisingly didn’t find any scat or nests, but I did see two different squirrels running, but I couldn’t catch them on camera. I liked using the INaturalist app to organize all my observations, but I didn’t really get a lot of feedback about the tracks I found (probably because I did this late). I also liked seeing everybody else’s observations around Burlington and I think it was cool to see people responding to and discussing the wildlife signs.
For this set of tracks (above), some of the tracks looked like there were 5 toes, so I was thinking it could be a weasel of some sort. It also looked kind of like fox prints, but they were too small.
When I put this in INaturalist, I put these tracks down as squirrel but I’m not very confident about that identification. The tracks seem too big to be squirrel and the tracks are bounding, so maybe it could be a fisher?
I think these tracks could be either squirrel or rabbit, but I was leaning towards squirrel since I was seeing multiple squirrels in the area. The pattern seems like a gallop but then gets more sporadic towards the bottom of the picture, which made the identification more confusing.
Both of these tracks were kind of hard to see the details of the prints, but we were leaning towards fisher or weasel again for the left. The right ones were throwing me off too because its a perfect square and didn’t have a full trail of tracks to really look at the pattern.