This week me and my friends went to the Redstone Pines right behind the Interfaith Building. It was a cold windy day and the night before we went it snowed making the tracks harder to spot. Even with a majority of the tracks being covered or messed up, we were still able to find a couple of interesting tracks. We found plenty of domestic dog tracks.
This was clearly a domestic dog because of the size and shape of the space between the toes and the pad. We even saw some dogs walking along the trail near the forest.
We also saw a snowshoe hare pattern.
With this galloping pattern and the general size, we think this is a snowshoe hare.
We also found one that kind of stumped me.
I think this track was covered by the snow and the wind. This made it much harder to identify. It was a diagonal walker that was around 2 inches so looking at that it could be anything from a fox to another domestic dog. Since the track isn’t clear I could not figure out exactly what it was.
We recorded some bird sounds along with the tracks to iNaturalist. We could only identify one of the birds. It was a black-capped chickadee. We didn’t see any scat or dens at this site.
Overall this trip was interesting. It was nice to go somewhere different than my normal site.