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grasswire

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5. Not likely to be a bobcat -- that would be very unusual here.

Reply to Eleanors38 (Reply #4)

Wed Feb 12, 2014, 03:39 AM

Feb 2014

The closest image I've seen is a fox, simply because the prints are all in a straight line, not side to side. A fox is pretty unlikely here, too. I'll ask old-timers if they have ever seen a fox.``

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can you point me to an internet site for animal track identification? [View all] grasswire Feb 2014 OP

Try these. oneshooter Feb 2014 #1

any pics? eom yawnmaster Feb 2014 #2

no, I didn't get any photos. grasswire Feb 2014 #3

Google: images animal tracks. Whole raft of them. Eleanors38 Feb 2014 #4

Not likely to be a bobcat -- that would be very unusual here. grasswire Feb 2014 #5

The Encyclopedia of Tracks & Scats rdharma Feb 2014 #6

Deer tracks are easy to spot in the snow. Jenoch Apr 2014 #9

Snow would be a help. In Texas you have limestone Eleanors38 Apr 2014 #10

We have two fresh inches of snow on the ground right now. Jenoch Apr 2014 #11

Wow. Hard to fathom. Here, it's the epic drought... Eleanors38 Apr 2014 #12

We're up to 8 inches of snow just north of the Twin Cities. Jenoch Apr 2014 #13

Cat squirrel = gray squirrel, just another name. Eleanors38 Apr 2014 #14

We have about 20,000 bear in Minnesota. Jenoch Apr 2014 #15

Forest Service animal tracks identification 3Stones Mar 2014 #7

Me too! elleng Mar 2014 #8