For this weeks assignment we chose to visit Centennial Woods in order to find some snow tracks. Almost immediately we found tracks that appeared to be some sort of a squirrel or rabbit.
When trying to identify these tracks, we used the tracking book in order to measure the stride and size of the tracks. We were pretty certain that it was some sort of a rabbit but followed the trail of the tracks just to make sure it hadn’t climbed up a tree, indicating that it would be a squirrel. Because the tracks stayed on the ground, and due to the sizing and the fact that we found the tracks at a relatively low elevation, we decided that it is a cottontail rabbit.