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Offline pastorp

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Tracks don't lie
« on: February 11, 2013, 05:11:36 AM »
Every morning I check the dirt road that runs across the north boundary of my property.  :o it tells me the story of the night before.  ;)

Anyone else do that.

I know there is a bobcat family that lives nearby. I also know a coyote family  travels the road almost every night. Then there is this fat bigfoot that comes down it every day to check on everything else. Wait a minute, that's my track.  ;D

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Re: Tracks don't lie
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2013, 03:21:49 PM »
I just moved the FL with a long sandy drive. It is neat to see when a BIG turtle and crossed the road or followed it a few hundred feet. Looks like someone is dragging a garbage can.

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Re: Tracks don't lie
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2013, 09:39:33 AM »
I'm always looking for tracks, trying to figure out how old they are, how fast or slow they were moving, etc.
 
We have snowcover all winter and at least 2, maybe more, snowshoe rabbits are around every night.
When I take the dog out in the morning it's fun to see where they've ran and where they may have been sitting during the night.
 
Once in a while one will take off from underneath my truck or my wife's car - of course the dog thinks it's great fun to chase it out of "her" yard!

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Re: Tracks don't lie
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2013, 04:18:34 PM »
  My eyes are always searching the ground too, my two most profitable spots are my garden and the creekbank behind the house. The creekbank shows every deer that moves onto or off the property due to it wrapping around most of it. The garden always shows a wealth of tracks, from mice, squirrels, rabbits and birds to turkey and deer. I can't usually tell coyote tracks from a couple of my similar sized dogs. I like to track but I'm no indian. J
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