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Archive for January, 2009

Coyote Kill site?

In field behind my house we came upon these tracks telling a story to us.  My interpretation of that story is as follows.

A female Coyote, by the size of her tracks, used my old tracks in the deep snow as she crossed the field.  Both canines and felines often use old prints and trails to make [...]

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Fox in Maine

Fox trail in Maine.  We saw many prints similar to this one as well as the scat below. 
 
Fox repeatedly marked small trees and things along the trails, you can just see his trail lead up to and away from the tree.  The scent marks smelled a little skunky which is consistant with a male fox [...]

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Hunting Hawk

Saw this in the field behind my house.  I think by the foot prints it is a redtail whom must have seen the little mouse or vole poking its head up and swooped down for it from the right, grabbed it, hoped to the left as it lost speed and stopped their,standing on its prey [...]

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Some pictures of field where coyotes gathered the night before. 
Note the rolling and drag marks from submissive behaviours. 

Below are some tracks from an individual running in a semicircle in his or her excitment to be with its packmates. 

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