For my February phenology site blog post, I visited Centennial woods to track animals with fellow NR student Sarah O’Leary and non-NR student Vero Verbitsky. We saw a rabbit, ab=n d were quick enough to snap a photo. We found tracks of dogs, otters, and raccoons (pictured below). The large dog prints on the trail were pretty obvious, as they had claws out and were accompanied by human tracks. The otter tracks were small and close to the stream. We used Naturalist to confirm our thought that these were otter tracks. The raccoon tracks we were still a bit unsure about. They had characteristic long raccoon fingers but they were in mud, meaning it was possible it was another animal whose paws were slipping around and made a raccoon looking track. On the way back I slipped on some Ice and ended up breaking my hand (pictured).
