Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to share a few photos of some recent excursion I had with my son where we spotted lots of animal tracks!

Snowy Animal Track Walk

Snow is for sure one of my favorite things for helping me figure out what types of animals are nearby!

When the snow is nice and freshly fallen, it makes it so easy to go out and figure out what the local wildlife is up to. You can find little trails all over the place, and I think that's really cool. It helps us remember that regardless of what's going on in the world, life goes on and the animals will do what they will always do regardless of the time of year. They just have different things they want to do, but most of it is around food.

We went on a nice little walk the other day after some fresh snow had fallen. This was good because it was also on the warmer side for once. With a few of the snow storms we've gotten, although it didn't drop a lot of snow overall, the days ended up being bitter cold afterwards which doesn't make it very fun to get out there and spend time in the elements for the little man. I can handle it myself, but I'm much more acclimated as an adult than he is, though he is getting there.

We saw quite a few animal signs when we were out there which was cool! One thing I wasn't expecting was to see beaver sign like this. We know that we've got beavers in some of the lakes and ponds but on the rivers we weren't sure that we would see them, especially this one as it's a very fast moving river. I guess the beavers don't care though, and they will find their home somewhere! I don't think the beaver cut the tree down in the storm, but this is certainly a fresh fell!

I think it's not surprising that one would see a lot of tracks like this. I am not entirely sure if these are racoon tracks or if they are squirrel tracks. They are fairly closed together but they don't have the distinct 2-paw hop of a bunny so I am thinking it is one of the other critters going around trying to find snacks or shelter or something. It could also be a coyote too, but I would be less inclined to think that one right here. In some of the other parts of the river for sure, but probably not here.

Here are those classic bunny tracks! We saw a number of these which was cool. The bunnies are constantly hopping around and finding things to nibble on so they can enjoy the winter time. The little man found these tracks here which was good because it's important for him to be able to do these things. I am certainly not a tracker but I do have some decent skills in trying to spot and figure out where the critters are going, and recognizing a few of the different ones.

When the snow is kind-of deep like this, it is sometimes a little difficult to figure out what it is since the animals aren't the biggest and they often squish their tracks trying to navigate through.

This one was funny to see, there are obviously families of bunnies in these bushes! Either that or the bunnies are running from something. We do have a family of eagles here which is really cool! They like to patrol the area, which we've seen and heard a number of times when we've been over here. That has been super cool to see, because we don't get to see eagles really well often since they like the high trees. A few times lately though when we've been in the area, we've seen the eagles take wing and fly over the river! That's absolutely breath taking to see and makes you choke up a little bit. They are fucking HUGE lol.

What about you, have you taken any walks lately? Let me know in the comments!

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