"… to be used for nature study and as a preserve for birds and other wildlife."- Carmen Hambleton Warner
Well the winter roll-a-coaster has taken us to February. The picture below mirrors the winter – some places frozen, some places thawed. While the pond is still frozen solid, the lawn in front of the nature center has only a trace of snow, due to a couple of bright sunny days.
The next series of pictures are of some animal tracks found seen around the nature center pictured above.
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Coyote prints |
This coyote had wandered all over the place- up and down the driveway, across the pond, through the boardwalk area- no doubt looking for a tasty rodent or whatever else it could find.
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Which way do I go? |
The ground around the nature center is peppered with all manner of little bird tracks. I don’t know if the picture above does it justice, but it looks like a birdie stampede in all directions!
The curious tracks below were seen in front of the nature center. These were a real mystery at first. They were fairly close to the edge of the pond, so I thought…muskrat tail? But that does not work as the pond is completely frozen.
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Mystery Tracks
As I searched a little more, I found the track pictured below.
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Ah ha! What I was seeing was a partial track that was created by the snow, thaw, snow that’s been going on lately. I believe that mystery tracks are those of a white-tailed deer. Old tracks that had partial melted were later cover by new snow, thus creating the crescent shaped mystery tracks.
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Typical Deer Tracks |
I am remained of an old TV commercial that said, ” You can’t fool Mother Nature”. By sometimes Mother Nature can sure fool you!!
Posted by Tom