Asymmetric trail with many drag marks from foraged material. Rather than harvest each Sea Rocket seed pod individually, the mice on this beach often cut off a twig bearing a number of seedpods and drag it off to good cover for processing. Penny in first image is 3/4 inch in diameter, for scale. Last images show the cut end of the twig that was dragged. Final image shows my knee prints as I sought the source of the harvest, with the mouse trail stretching back and away.
Evidence of a mass roosting location - see oval area indicated in image 2. Almost no tracks found outside that zone.
Freshly deposited next to older Bobcat scat (visible in image 2). Note smaller diameter and gnarled, twisted form with looser construction. Penny in grass is 3/4" diameter for scale.
Locally rare.
With abiotic tracks of a variable wind pushing grass blades to and fro.
Asymmetric trail with many drag marks from foraged material. Rather than harvest each Sea Rocket seed pod individually, the mice on this beach often cut off a twig bearing a number of seedpods and drag it off to good cover for processing. Penny in first image is 3/4 inch in diameter, for scale. Last images show the cut end of the twig that was dragged. Final image shows my knee prints as I sought the source of the harvest, with the mouse trail stretching back and away.
With characteristic trails on firm sand, with lots of belly drag.
Patrolling the lagoon shoreline in both directions overnight.
Early flowering?
Penny is 3/4 inch in diameter.
Tracks sometimes showed heavy striations from fur as in image 1, other times 'negative image' tracks where feet pulled up thin surface film of mud leaving gaps in the mud surface in the form of a Fox track.
Very small tracks with prominent claws, in tight groups well spaced apart (see image 4). Gait appears to have been a bound. Trail ended at stream edge suggesting possible water entry.