Small Track ID?

Rumpled · Post by **Rumpled** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 5:10 pm

OK,
cougarmagic and others.

Here are some small tracks; what are they?
Skunk, raccoon, squirrel, possum, other?

cougarmagic · Post by **cougarmagic** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:09 pm

Rumpled wrote:and others.

Come on "others" - don't make me the brown nosey kid always raising her hand first in class!

Post by **HikeUp** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:32 pm

This 'other' says...Emu!

This is why you are asked first Magic.

Mike P · Post by **Mike P** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:43 pm

OK, CM, I vote for gray fox.

Post by **Taco** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:59 am

My guess is fox. Maybe skunk, though I don't know how many of them there are in the SG's.

Rumpled · Post by **Rumpled** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:26 am

The track is not in the SG's it's in the Santa Ana foothills.
I just posted here because of CM and I don't know of any tracking forums.

I know it's not canine or feline. I think too small for raccoon; but I think the way it looks like a hand makes it so. Might be skunk. There are tons of ground squirrels in this area.

OK, the CM kid in the front row with the arm thrust in the air can answer now that no other kid can. Besides, that arm has got to be getting tired.

cougarmagic · Post by **cougarmagic** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:43 am

Ooh! Ooh! I know!

http://www.coestatepark.com/beechey_ground_squirrel.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=FVoDRs ... ks&f=false

It's the Beechey ground squirrel.

The photo is good because it shows the tracks of all four feet - and the pattern tells more than the shape of any one foot.

The far left print and the one next to your finger are the hind feet. They land in front of the front feet when the animal is moving in its normal "gallop" mode.

I had to look it up. All the little rodent tracks look really similar.

Post by **Taco** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:55 am

Do they taste good?

cougarmagic · Post by **cougarmagic** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:06 am

TacoDelRio wrote:Do they taste good?

Sure, if you like plague. (both Bubonic and Pneumonic)

Rumpled · Post by **Rumpled** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:45 pm

I was afraid of squirrel; I wanted to find something a bit more "exotic".
There are hundreds of these litle buggers around our animal pens - they love to steal food.
Occassionally they drown in water buckets.

gregp909 · Post by **gregp909** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 3:04 pm

Once they are drowned in the water buckets I am guessing that would wash off the "plague" and then they be good eatin' Right?!?

Personally, I was hoping Emu was the right answer.

Post by **Taco** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:31 pm

cougarmagic wrote:
TacoDelRio wrote:Do they taste good?
Sure, if you like plague. (both Bubonic and Pneumonic)

SWEET!

Rumpled · Post by **Rumpled** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:03 pm

gregp909 wrote:Once they are drowned in the water buckets I am guessing that would wash off the "plague" and then they be good eatin' Right?!?

Personally, I was hoping Emu was the right answer.

Buckets get rinsed and you'd have to ask the vultures about the taste.

Couldn't be emu, birds have like three toes (oh, and their tracks would be 100's of times bigger)