I was not having much luck at finding tracks at the beginning of my time at my spot but then I explored around and ended up finding some really interesting tracks!

These first few I thought might have been dog tracks, but they were so far off the trail that I don’t think they are. I used my tracking guide and I think they are either from a coyote or a fox.

These next ones are really interesting because I’ve never seen tracks like these before. It’s hard to tell what exactly the print is but I am thinking that they might be from a woodchuck or maybe a raccoon.

There were also some other tracks that I wasn’t sure exactly what they were. The look sort of like the coyote ones but a bit smaller and with more rounded pads.

Lastly, I saw evidence of squirrel activity because of the plethora of broken apart pinecones. I did see two squirrels, but I did not end up getting a picture of them.

For the spring semester I decided to continue to return to Centennial Woods. When I visited this place today, it was raining. It had also recently snowed which means that the conditions were very icy. I noticed that there was almost no green except for moss on decomposing logs. You could also see through the forest a lot more since the understory is mostly tree trunks and there is little shrub material. There was less snow in my spot than some other areas in the woods. Likely because the eastern white pines provide a good shelter for the forest floor. Below, I am including some pictures of what my spot looks like today.

I also observed a weird phenomenon on a few trees where there appears to be bubbles forming along the bark of the tree. It looks a little bit like someone spit on the tree.