Welcome Back! Excited to be wandering around Trinity’s woods again and finding new things.
Here, I found some tracks that looked like grey squirrel tracks, as they were the right size and according to page 17 in our tracking book. The grey squirrel has a hindfoot size of about 5 cm.
The Trinity Woods has not changed much since I last saw it. No new trees had fallen. The only difference between now and then was the amount of snow. The snow has frozen on the ground so the ferns or grass no longer poke out. Animal sightings are relatively low but can be better seen against the snow and with tracks.
Works Cited
Levine, L., & Mitchell, M. (2008). Mammal tracks and scat: life-size tracking guide. East Dummerston, VT: Heartwood Press.
Holland, M., & Kaneko, C. (2019). Naturally curious: a photographic field guide and month-by-month journey through the fields, woods, and marshes of New England. North Pomfret, Vermont.: Trafalgar Square Books.