This Thursday two friends and I explored the Intervale area in Burlington right by the Winooski river. Most of the snow had melted and it was very muddy. The tracks we saw were very clear and easy to identify; we saw tons of domestic dog prints. It was fun to see the different shapes and sizes of the tracks.
Down by the edge of the river, we saw a really cool pattern I think is evidence of animals in the subnivian zone before the snow melted. It was little half tunnels zig-zagging through the mud. I enjoyed posting some of these mysteries to iNaturalist and getting responses as to what they could be.
I uploaded a picture of some sort of animal activity in a tree and was able to have it identified as a pileated Woodpecker.
Most of the tracks we saw were very easy to identify as the domestic dog. They were either too big or small to be a coyote and the toe pads were not even on both sides suggesting a domestic dog as opposed to a coyote. We also saw some red squirrel tacks that were identifiable by the toe drags.