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Tracking in Burlington

I chose to go to Centennial Woods for this assignment and explore there once more, of course, the weather was frigid and the loudest sound I could hear was the trees swaying in the cold breeze with the occasional chirp of a bird. I felt like it was somewhat hard to find tracks, possibly due to the frequency of people coming through there.

I believe the next image prints are the straddle hopping tracks of a mouse, I assume it is this animal due to the markings of the tail dragging along the snow behind its feet, when consulting my tracking book, it also confirms the description of the tracks.

After steering off more to the left, away from the main trail to explore the woods for a bit I found even more distinct hopping tracks! from what seemed to be a gray squirrel due to the large distance that in person were roughly 11-12 cm.

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