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Very Unusual Tracks

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Posted by carolynfaith (My Page) on
Wed, Feb 4, 09 at 14:24

Hey! Over the past few weeks, the strangest animal tracks began appearing all over my front and back yard. I live in a very developed suburb so any tracks at all are rare, but I couldn't possibly imagine what kind of animal would make these. There are hundreds of them criss-crossing all over the yard. They are several feet apart, some over a foot long, about two inches deep into the snow, and the wierdest part is they make a single file path. A one footed hopping bigfoot maybe?

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Looks like squirrel tracks to me.

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No looks like a Rabbit track. One that is in a hurry.

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squirerel for sure. rabbits tracks running look very different. In snow squirrels will hop to get through it. I bet if you look around the tracks there will be little holes borrowed into the snow where they were looking for nuts.

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Could have ben asrtay rabbit not on a track. Looks like rabbit to me they hop all the time unless you have squirrels as big as rabbits?

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It looks like a common cotton tail rabbit track to me. It was loping along in an unhurried pace. Squirrel tracks have definite toe marks and smaller feet. The tracks in your photo shows the furry padded foot of a bunny.

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That's squirrel tracks. Even though made a bit larger in the snow ... they are not consistent with a rabbit. Looks like the squirrel was tracking a buried nut or seed ... but the two tracks side by side are where the squirrel stood on it's hind feet and looked around for direction or predatory threats.

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Those are cottontail tracks. This is true because of the positioning of the two front tracks in the hoping pattern. squirrels and hares leave a very distinctive two by two hopping pattern when they move across the snow, and this is clearly not what is happening in the photo.The two front feet are landing separately which is distinctive of rabbits. Rabbits can also land in the two by two hop, but the size of the tracks are larger and front feet are usually closer together. The pointed tip of the front tracks are also a very good indicator that these are rabbit tracks because this too is distinctive of the species.

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Wow for you guys thinking that those are squirrel tracks that is sad. Look in any track book. It is an eastern cottontail rabbit.

  
 

 

 


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