Daggerlad

One creature among many. @lilmeaties factory worker

[Daggerlad @Daggerlad2]

My tiny form floats inside the office watercooler, curled up in a happy little ball. When someone dispenses water I giggle (the bubbles tickle me!) When the water runs out I get sad, and my tears refill the tank. My boss still has not noticed I am not at my desk.

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The season of tiny creatures

Can you spot the gosling feet in #4 :)

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1. Crayfish chimney. Raccoons & skunks love em
2. Groundhog
3. Good look at how much bigger beaver hinds are than their fronts
4. Two passing ships in the night. An opossum (splayed "sun" fronts and more L-shaped hinds in the center), and a muskrat (the "crown" in the lower left)

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Paranoid fellow

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@SOPROSOCIAL Happy to be around :)

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I'm in the market for a new home

[Errai @errai]

(texting craigslist buyer from my blimp) I'm above

[Daggerlad @Daggerlad2]

Always love the stories present in tracks and sign.

A squirrel dig

A deer bed with a good view of where humans and other animals might walk by on the trail below

The cozy A-frame home of a flying squirrel colony

A dog stopping to piss on a tree 🥰

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@Blessed_shovel I just recently learned that too haha

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Low water line revealing some beaver hovels. I enjoyed the burrow directly across the river from the favorite neighborhood restaurant

Possible gray fox in pic 3. Bit small for coyote, narrow/sharp nails for domestic dog, no fur showing for red fox.

Mink in #4

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@Blessed_shovel That's why you often find smurfs with limbs severed at 45 degree angles

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Learned a couple things

1. Deer enjoy browsing on birch polypore shrooms
2. Deer (and rabbit) pee can appear red depending on their diet. I had seen blue rabbit pee when they'd been eating buckthorn

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@feedmewifi Up there with my favorite quests. (when it doesn't bug out)

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Weekend mystery: Wife’s hawk eyes spotted a tiny speck of blood in the snow, and as we followed the specks the blood became more substantial (1).

(2) The blood trail curved from the main human/dog walking trail onto a well-trod deer trail that led down onto the lake.

🧵

[Errai @errai]

Flights

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@feedmewifi I have. I actually went for a walk in the woods earlier this winter after a fresh snow and just listened to the Skyrim soundtrack the whole time lol

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@littleclowndoll @aeonuncertain 🪽👁️👁️🪽

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@ned_flaczynski Lol, appreciate it. Practicing wildlife tracking really feels like looking at crime scenes, and I'm usually left brooding over evidence alone in a cafe with few answers...

[lil stinker @superlameballs]

12 years old and already experienced the pinnacle of life: perfectly round vole..... i almost pity the girl... it's all down hill from here....

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I have enough material to clone the suspect

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(7) Some great tracks on the thin layer of snow. We saw five clear toes in the fronts (7.1, 7.2) and, though less clear, five toes in the hinds (7.3).

I was torn between striped skunk and raccoon. A friend more experienced than I am thinks it was the result of a raccoon brawl