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Jerboas, Jumping Mice, and Birch Mice (Superfamily Dipodoidea)Observer
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American Mink (Neogale vison)Observer
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The 2x2 bounding trail with a very consistent stride length, as is characteristic of Mink. Followed this trail for mile over the ridge, where it prowled Red Squirrel and Chipmunk holes, to another beaver pond.
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Grey Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)Observer
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visiting my apple tree
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Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris)Observer
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at intersection of two dirt roads
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Meadow Vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus)Observer
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Trail was pretty consistently 1.5" wide.
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Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)Observer
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I saw the salamander, big guy, 7-8" long. It walked about 3 yards in the snow, looping from the hole shown to another hole in the snow where it crawled into the leaves. Trail width approx 1.5". It was about 30 degrees. On a human trail in deciduous woods. It moved slowly, stretching its legs all the way forward with each step. Pix taken by Mike Bottini the following day, since I had no camera with me when I saw the beast. A biologist we contacted speculated that the salamander may have been diseased or could have been flooded from its burrow by heavy rains earlier in the winter (this would have been late December or early January).
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North American Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)Observer
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A second Porcupine den. There were three in close proximity along this ridge. I followed a Bobcat trail that visited all of them. The trail was from the previous afternoon when the snow was first wet. At the third Porcupine, the cat trail was fresh, newly powdery, much harder to make out. The cat had been in there overnight. No sign of the porcupine's blood, but there was lots of room in the rocks that I could not get to.
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North American Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)Observer
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Porcupine den in rocky outcropping, chock-a-block with its scats.
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North American Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)Observer
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Pictures of a sapling heavily browsed by a Porcupine and a close-up the browse on the sapling. The den is in the rocks in the background. It's a little more than 2" from the tip of my finger to the second knuckle.
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North American Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)Observer
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Pictures of a porcupine track, its trail and another picture of its trail with Bobcat tracks in it. The cat followed the ridge south of here, visiting all the active Porcupine dens and trails.
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Bobcat (Lynx rufus)Observer
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Bobcat sit spot. The two front tracks are near the top of the photo. The heels of the hind feet are near the bottom, and the tracks of the hind feet are right below the fronts. The tracks are nearly 2" long each.
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Bobcat (Lynx rufus)Observer
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The cat backed up to the stump as it passed and scent-marked it. Accompanying photo of a track at the scent post. It's a little more than 2" from the tip of my finger to the second knuckle.
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Bobcat (Lynx rufus)Observer
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Front and hind tracks. It's a little over 2" from the tip of my finger to the second knuckle. The tracks were nearly 2" long.
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White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)Observer
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Large area of shuffling in the leaves for mast. Deer tracks were the only ones going into or out of the area. A picture of one of the tracks is included.
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Meadow Vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus)Observer
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Meadow vole trails in the grass and soil above a septic system, which heats the ground marginally. A picture of a subnivean trail, two pix of an esker, and a pic of a hole in the ground leading to a subterranean trail. Hole = approx 1.5" across.