I revisited my site on the second monday back at school, on a cold cloudy afternoon, with the intention of spotting signs of wildlife. The snow blanketing the ground from the last week was a perfect canvas for tracks: the main path showed human, dog, and bike prints, but looking closely just off the beaten path revealed tracks of varying sizes. The now-frozen marsh especially, being such a smooth and welcoming surface, was peppered with bird, rabbit, squirrel, and what may be racoon/fox/marten prints (closeup below).

In the cover of the bare basswood trees, I could also identify rabbit tracks right alongside deer ones, as pictured below. Looking up, I noted that the bird nests in the pines remain intact and presumably inhabited, though the chipmunk hole I kept an eye on is good and buried (hibernating?).