Wednesday the Northeast got hit with a whole bunch of snow, officially 13 inches for my city in Rhode Island, but other places got almost two feet. After shoveling out the car and the road in our little mobile home park was plowed, I concentrated on shoveling off my patio so the birds would have access to food. The juncos were out in full force, along with hoards of sparrows, starlings, and pigeons. Both the titmice and chickadees were laying low as were the blue jays. Yesterday the sun was shining and the snow started to melt. We got a few more inches of snow after the main dig out so while I was shoveling the patio again I noticed all the different tracks in the snow wondering what critters had visited my yard. The most noticeable was this mass of bird and kitty paw prints; hopefully they weren't there at the same time.
It was obvious who made those tracks; some of the rest were more intriguing - possibly more birds, squirrels, who knows what else, and a couple of marks in the snow that were not even tracks. But here they are. I'll let you have fun trying to figure them out because a couple of them I have no clue.
These tracks go right through the bush, but don't really look like either cat or bird tracks.
The snow was really wet and chunky. Shovelfuls came up with big hunks of snow. Here's a track where a little piece of snow rolled down and made its own snowball.
Hmmm, wonder if these are human or alien!??
For sure you have a raccoon print in the first photo! Some of the other "marks" in the snow probably came from snow falling out of the trees. A few squirrel prints, etc! Glad the camera is getting some use!
ReplyDeleteI think there was a little snail in the one that rolled into a snowball. What do you think? :)
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