I was listening for owls not too long after dusk. The temperature was in the 50s and the half moon shone brightly. Owls had been vocal. Standing in the dark, I heard a very loud, unfamiliar call that I thought must be either Great Horned or Spotted Owl. It called again, nearby and more intensely. I found myself getting in my car quickly without quite knowing why - it was an involuntary response faster than my brain consciously moved on to IDs like this one. But my brain did get there as I found myself rolling up the window in addition to closing the door, leaving just enough room to record. It was too loud and intense. The sounds moved very quickly from roughly behind my car to in front of my car. When I turned on the car and drove slowly forward, I quickly spotted these two individuals (presumably immature), which I somehow half expected I would see up the road. They were occasionally responding to other calls from the woods (presumably their mother). Photo taken by headlights at 12800 ISO.
Gray fox cry.
See video:
https://flic.kr/p/2mWbamF
Burnet County, Tx. oak juniper woodland
credit card is 3 3/8" long
track and scat at Abbotts Lagoon
This was an hour-long trailing experience. A family of three mountain lions killed a deer at one end of the riverbar. They then dragged it all the way to the other end and into the brush, where they fed on it for several days. This observation shows the first part of the trail with the kill site and evidence that the prey was a deer is shown. Will show other sections of the trail later. The deer was in brush and the mountain lions (2 of them from the track evidence) jumped it from the embankment above. It was quickly dispatched and one lion carried it out into the open. One of the cubs helped drag the carcass, as evidenced by the tracks. Video will be posted soon.
Added some coyote pics from another phone. We saw actually saw a coyote marking/scratching at one of the two scratch sites.
Raccoon tracks, scratches, and digging sign on sand.
Overstep, indicating a normal walking speed.
Vaalbos Rocky Shrubland (Rhigozum obovatum-Senegalia mellifera open scrubland)
Possible rakali? Tracks indicate a rodent that drags its tail (Rattus sp. usually hold theirs up).
Tasmanian Devil tracks, transverse gallop (gait).
wallaby footprints in the wet sandy track
Wombats walking tracks
Quadrupedal walking tracks
Bipedal hop (gait) tracks
Rakali tracks, bounding pattern (gait).
Pademelon walking (quadrupedal) tracks
Tasmanian Devil tracks. Transverse lope (gait).
Common Wombat walking tracks.
Photos of tracks taken on mud flat between Folly Point and Primrose Park between 6.30 and 7.10 am. Coincided with peak low tide.
Macropod tracks with ruler on the back of "Tracks, Scats, and Other Traces" for scale.
Family group trails followed for over 1/2mile. Apparently one adult (surely a female) and one half-grown young. Some images show larger and smaller tracks side by side as well as divergent trails. These cats often walked in one another's footsteps making it unclear how many individuals were present. Images 3 and 4 show one cat pausing during a direct-register walk and turning its head to scan the open beach.
Video: https://youtu.be/iqesVl1kl3o
Tracks were size of a large house cat.
I was measuring the metatarsal pad width at just about 50 mm, possibly male? Last photo shows cougar, coyote, and bobcat tracks all in the same photo.
Tracks in muddy creek bed in Towsley Canyon.
Sign: Tracks Lockwood Valley Road
Lots of raccoon prints in the mud along the shore of Calero Reservoir.
What animal do these tracks belong to?
Confident in mountain lion ID due to pronounced leading toe. Tracks continued for 150+ yards
A few sets of tracks on beach.
Track in hoarfrost on boardwalk. Big Morongo Canyon Preserve.
so cute and perfect.. the tracks followed the trail for a while, and then lunged off in bounds toward a tree that had many squirrel tracks at the base
10” DR TROT. 14” —-
11-12” OS WALK —-
Fronts 1.5/8. —
Hinds 1.5
OS WALK TW 4”
Sign: Tracks
Tracks on a burrow mound
tracks in silt along east branch of Soquel creek. my guess is tree squirrel, this matches the bounding pattern Mammal Tracks & Sign pg 282
Are these bear claw marks? 5.5-6.5 feet high in large live oak. Branch is 2 feet across, where the marks are.
A fresh scrape and scat. Scrape and associated track look like a bobcat, while the scat looks more like a gray fox. Overmarking?
Could these be juvenile bobcat tracks? I don't remember them being paired with a larger set.
Seen in Weathersfield VT- snow imprint - anyone know what kind of bird?
I found frequent instances of markings like those on the snow near my bird feeders. Can anyone suggest how they are made?
Caddo Lake WMA 727 Unit
Last photo is of scat that we watched fall out of the porcupine.
Probably local Copper’s Hawk
53.74088 22.813356773 https://observation.org/waarneming/view/175002661 Lat: 53.69653Lon: 22.785862
tracks
A very fun one to try to figure out in the field. This set of opossum tracks was just the pads. Toes did not imprint. It made this ID challenging!
En la década de 1990, durante uno de los diplomados de RESERVA en la RB Ría Celestún, era común observar huellas de ocelote en los terrenos salitrosos cercanos a la ría. Estas son huellas derechas con la mano (huella de abajo) y la pata, en patrón de caminata. Las pisadas eran frescas y la navaja mide 9 cm de largo.
Durante el trabajo de campo en la RB Calakmul observé muchas huellas de jaguar. Estas son especiales porque el individuo que las hizo fue el único jaguar que observé. Las huellas son derechas; si se observa con cuidado la pisada de la mano (la que está a la derecha) se puede ver que el dedo anular está fuera de lugar; es decir, que esta individuo tenía un dedo "chueco" y sus huellas se podían diferenciar de las de otros jaguares. La navaja mide 9 cm de largo.
Huellas claras de mano y pata izquierdas. Siguen el patrón característico de la caminata del tlacuache: la huella de la pata justo debajo de la huella de la mano. Como las pisadas son superficiales, en la pata solo de marca la punta de los dedos; pero se aprecia claramente el pulgar oponible.
tracks, resting sidewinder, previous resting spot
Kit Fox may be possible.? Location is obscured. No fresh sign.
Survey of Clark Valley.
Can anyone explain what went on here? Is this the work of one animal or a team? I have never seen such an orderly pattern of tracks. 2nd photo has a pen for scale