Rather than start another track ID discussion, I think I'll just post my sighting here. I hope that's OK, Michael.
I'm not sure what species is the proportion i describe below. I'm wondering if anyone else has a guess? The lay shows the position of…
Charlie's idea is a good one. Also, you can use yourself as measure and then when you get home, use a ruler to measure that. i.e. tip of thumb or pointer finger to joint length. Also, you can use twigs to measure and bring home the twigs. broken to…
Next time, if you don't have anything to measure with you...remember you have the option of taking a piece of the plant that occurs in the picture with you, then measure the piece later and scale the photo. For instance the yellowish expanded bud sc…
Really nice tracks... did you get dimensions on them? It's nice when you see these in all that debris. I wouldn't count out feline, because there doesn't seem to be much space between the heel pad and the toes. With canines there's enough space that…
A primary difference between the cat and dog family is the existence of claws in the track or not. Cats will retract their claws and not show the mark, Dogs of course show a claw mark in all tracks. Can you see the claw marks in these tracks?
Also,…
Can anybody help identify these tracks? I'm not quite sure if it's dog or couger track. It's in a known area where cougers roam as well as dogs. Any help would be appreciated.