birch and beech), you are in gray squirrel land. Also be ready to make mistakes. Tracking in snow can seem easy, but can be deceptively tricky. Tracks distort and expand as snow melts ...

Also, most likely there were some coyote tracks somewhere in the yard, but the blowing snow either covered them up or changed them. And of course there were gray squirrel tracks everywhere ...

Snow was falling thick and fast ... Oddly, there were no shrew tunnels to be seen, nor any squirrel tracks, and again not a bird could be found. But otters had been quite busy.

Red squirrel hind feet are about 2.5 cm long ... you on the hike so you have the information at your fingertips. Snow makes tracks easy to see which is why track ID is such a fun winter activity.

Do you see tracks in the snow? If so, you just might have the chance ... Opossum, raccoon, skunk and squirrel tracks may lead to birdfeeders and garbage cans. Rabbit tracks might head toward ...

A hiker who was unprepared for conditions at over 13,000 feet up in the Colorado Rockies was rescued when searchers followed footprints in freshly fallen snow to find them “alive but very ...