beartracker's Identifications

Tracking tunnel baited with smooth peanut butter and placed in central city backyard garden, weighed down by paving stones, under a griselinia hedge.

Left out for 3 nights from 21 to 23 April 2015.

Tracks of a house cat were identified (it looks like they were able to reach into the tracking tunnel touching part of the ink pad but not the peanut butter.

However an unidentified species has left very tiny orderly footprints (see photos). In a class discussion it was suggested that it might be footprints of a slater/woodlouse.

We do have hedgehogs in the backyard as well as an abundance of rats and mice (which our three cats take turns at hunting) but no hedgehog/rat/mouse footprints were observed. This is most likely due to the presence of three resident cats that occupy the property, and one stray cat that regularly passes through the property.