Yesterday (2/18) my friend and I took a walk to the beautiful staples plaza to visit our favorite store in the world, Michael’s. On the way back, near the gas stations, (and by near the gas stations I mean while we were poking around behind them for tracks), we saw the following:

Snow has pretty clearly fallen since the tracks were made (or maybe melted/refrozen), so we couldn’t get precise prints, but since it’s in a direct register I think it was some sort of cat (my guess is that the prints were too small to be a dog’s). I’d even wager bobcat, if they’re friendly enough to humans to stay around a gas station.

We also saw these little prints around the dumpster. Since they’re not in a straight line, it’s harder to get the walk pattern, but I think they’re in a track pattern. That with the context of the trash can is making me think raccoon.

I’m putting them up on iNaturalist after I make this blog post, but from what I remember the experience is pretty easy and user friendly 🙂

Also, while we were behind the gas station, we saw a lot of patterns like the following:

My friend and I weren’t sure if they were prints or some other pattern (rain? Fallen leaves?) but if they are prints, I think they’re birds. Crows, maybe? We didn’t see any birds around them, but I don’t think the pattern is from human interference.