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Approximately 4” long with what appear to be lobed toes. Three or four grebes ran from shore into the water as I approached this area. There were also several snowy egrets in the mix at the same time, and various other waterfowl in the area. Many different track types were evident.

My best guess is that a fox twice tried and once succeeded in shedding a bolus of intestinal worms. Photo 1 was taken "uptrail" of Photos 2-4. Photo 4 taken after tampering with the bolus (stretchy, spaghetti-like, and contracts in response to being pulled apart and stretched).

A trench like path in the ground, about 1.5 inches wide
Hole can be seen (photographed the next morning) - last few photos . A cicada killer wasp was digging another burrow less than five feet from this one

Sleeping barn owl in a pine tree.

This barn owl was really hard to see high up in the pine tree. I couldn't be sure at the time that it wasn't just a big pine cone. Because the tree was so densely packed with branches, it was hard to get an in-focus photo.

Barn owl pellet found under the pine tree at Site A.
This pellet was not dissected.

This might be a pellet from a juvenile, since it's about half the size of other owl pellets found under this tree.

Length: 1.5 in (3.8 cm)

Here are the observations of the owl that roosts in this tree:
• https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175931195
• https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/173672073

This will take a bit of back story. Last year we found that our mulch paths kept being excavated at night by an animal. we finally figured out what it was when I was outside at night doing astronomy. Striped skunk. This year the paths are being dug up again so I set up a track station with powdered charcoal. Here are the results. I think the skunk is digging up bumble flower beetle grubs that are common in the paths.

Same Black Bear sow and cub that I photographed on 2022/09/24 in www.inaturalist.org/observations/137359360. This photo is from two weeks earlier and a few miles further to the southeast, and was taken by a rancher's trail camera placed at a rural water hole; both Bears are cooling off IN the water hole basin. Private Property - No Public Access.