-
Recent Posts
Top Posts & Pages
Archives
- May 2024
- April 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
Categories
- Country Gardening (551)
- Country Living (161)
- Field Notes (436)
- Inspirational Quotes (78)
- My Photos (1,239)
- Uncategorized (71)
Recent Comments
-
Posts I Like
Blogs I Follow
- Sweet Cactus Flower
- Cats and Trails and Garden Tales
- GreenDreams
- Feathers & Leaves
- Rtistic
- Nature Diary
- Be Unique. Be Real. Be Unforgettable.
- randomandsuperficialthoughts.wordpress.com/
- Cosmos and Cleome
- Handmade by Lennea
- shelleymwhite.wordpress.com/
- Backyard Bird Nerd
- Sun, Water and Stone
- Leaf And Twig
- Modern-Day Kitchen Garden
- Nature And Photography
- mazeepuran (माझे e-पुराण)
- Wild Scot
- Heaven's Sunshine
- The Gravel Ghost
Meta
Silent Sunday – Neighbors
This entry was posted in Field Notes, My Photos, Uncategorized and tagged animal tracks, nature photography, Silent Sunday, winter. Bookmark the permalink.
Eliza Waters 
Amazing neighbors 🤗🩷
Absolutely, I love knowing they are there. 🙂
Wow, even a bobcat! That’s cool. One of the nice things about snow.
Thanks, Audrey. Yes, I was excited to see her print. I think she is the one I’ve seen before, who has wildlife tags on her ears.
I love this post! The snow reveals so many visitors / neighbours! Here we need to look at mud or soft sand to find prints 🙂
Tracking in snow is so easy, but mud or sand take more skill. Here, it is mostly birds, deer, mink and raccoon prints I see in the mud by the river.
Great footprint shots, Eliza! They had me wondering if those creatures were nearby, watching you follow their trail …
Some of them probably were. It is like when the leaves fall, I see bird nests right next to the trail and know those parents sat there quietly while we passed right by them several times a day! Thanks, Joanne. 🙂
Great shots!
Thank you!
How does you beautiful garden look during winter time?
Very dormant!! 😀
Geez you’d be handy to have around for more than plant identification. 🙂 Good post because I always enjoy looking at the neighbors walking about in the yard. 🙂
Thank you, Judy! I love fresh snow so I can see the activity that I miss during the other seasons.
The wonderful thing about snow is you do get to see who has been around – and quite a variety by the looks of things
There are many more than I’ve shown here, birds and other mammals like possum, fox, coyote, skunk, weasel and otters, these shots are from just a couple walks. Lots of neighbors!
Fabulous
What a brilliant range of creatures you’ve identified. Sometimes tracks are the only way you know what’s visiting.
Thank you, Allison. It is the best time of year to catch the wide range of critters that share our same paths.
Great collection of paw and hoof prints, Eliza! I never heard of deer’s dew claws — thanks for teaching me something new. 🙂
My pleasure Barbara. Because they are higher up the hoof, they only show up in deeper snow or mud.
I walked a similar trail the other day, Tranquility in the early morning
Yes, I love seeing who visits unseen by me during my walks.
A regular super highway out there! I especially enjoyed seeing the bobcat prints. I have never seen any.
It surely is! Most impressive to me was the direct register of its prints, an amazing adaptation to saving energy in a snowy winter.
Do you ever see the bobcat? Are they plentiful there?
As they are mostly nocturnal, they are a rare sight, only a handful of sightings over 3 decades. Mostly, I see tracks. I once saw a mama and her fuzzball kit down by the river, a charming memory!
I only get to track in sand or mud; following tracks in snow would be such fun! Deer, birds, and raccoons are most plentiful, but there are bobcats around. They often come out of the coastal woods to prowl the nearby shore, and wet sand is the best for capturing their presence. I’ve had three sightings over the years; they certainly are reclusive.
It is fun to get a reading on the current residents, we see such a wide variety, small to large.
Wildlife and woods certainly go well together.
They love the cover for sure.
Stories left in the snow
Read like a book! 🙂
The trail of steps bears witness to life in winter. Very nice capture, Eliza!
Thank you, Tina. It is a busy path!
Lovely post Eliza. Especially the notes on the last one! 😉 Amazing to think how many creatures are out and about while we are not looking.
Thank you, Cathy. There really are quite a few that generally go undetected. Snowfall always reveals so much.
You’ve certainly got a diverse group of neighbors, Eliza! I know I wouldn’t have been able to ID all those paw and hoof prints — well done.
Thank you, Debbie. I’m not an expert, but I generally get them right, I think!
Hi Eliza. How amazing to be able to see where the animals have been and very impressed at your tracking skills! One of the benefits of snow…
MJ
Thanks, MJ, it is always a highlight of snowfall to see who has passed through.
Snow is great for revealing tracks, and it’s fun to try to identify the different critters, great (deer, dogs, fox) and small (mice. voles), not that I’ve tried to learn it well.
Thanks, Tom. I’m not an expert, but they are fun to decipher.
A few years back I read book about tracking and animal sign by Paul Rezendes, who is also a photographer.
I love looking at tracks in the snow, it is something I do often with the children at work. Growing up it was one of my favourite things to do in the winter.
It is fun to see who visited since your last pass through. 🙂
What wonderful neighbours to have Eliza! ❤
The best! 🙂
Two species sharing the trail! 🙂
Lovely!
Thanks, Dale. Lots of critters use these paths. 🙂
😊
Isn’t it wonderful to see who shares the land with us.
Yes, I love to see my ‘silent’ neighbors!
As I picked up piles and moved snow further away, I also had a well beaten track here. Scat now and then is seen when snow is not here but for sure it is easier to see their comings and goings with it in place.
Pretty interesting to see who comes through!
Sure is! I have 3 cameras 🙂
I need to get one of those!
Yes, you do go to Amazon they were not expensive I got 3 and 3 SD cards and batteries under 100.00
A busy route!
It surely is! 🙂
Even in a photo I can feel the cold – brrr…Did you see any deer, or do they hustle to stay out of the way of humans?
They can hear us coming and tend to move away before we arrive, or at least bounding away so we just see their tail ends. They tend to be most active at dawn and dusk, browsing through the dark hours. The exception is when a doe has a fawn resting nearby, she’ll move only a small distance away and keep watch. I’ve tried to find the fawn sometimes, but they are so well camouflaged, you could be looking right at it and you wouldn’t see it.
I’ve got similar scenes of my boot prints and deer as well! Except mine are muddy, yours are prettier with snow 😊
Yes, I agree, mud somehow isn’t as photogenic!
I was out this morning and looked at my paths, thinking maybe I’d take some photos after commenting on your post, but no, mud just isn’t so pretty, lol.
Looks like a well used path…by both man and critters. Love seeing some YakTraks in the snow. 😉
Yeah, YT… don’t leave home without them!
Oh, I love these!! Very cool to be able to see traces of your roaming neighbors, especially the bobcat. I’m glad I can finally recognize a Yaktrax.😁
Glad you are wearing yours! Stay safe. 🙂
These are great! That snow looks perfect for clearly showing tracks; We keep looking for bobcat tracks here but we haven’t convinced ourselves that we’ve seen any.
Like a BIG house cat! They are pretty elusive. I’ve seen more tracks than the actual cat. But they are a thrill when we do.
We have them here; we heard one a few years ago screaming in our yard but we didn’t see it. I’ve had a trail camera out but never seen one.
What wonderful neighbors you have! I love that bobcat track. I have to wait for mud to track who is here. 🙂
Indeed we do, thanks, Robin. 🦌🦝🐇🐾
Interesting how the snow acted as a kind of time machine that merged the separate walking of two species.
An interesting way of looking at it. Fresh tracks laid over older ones tell a tale.
Amazing! Are bobcats something to be concerned about? 🤔
Not really, they avoid humans. Their main prey is rabbit, but they’ll eat a deer carcass, if they find one.
Good to know. 😊
We have to have wire fences around our aspen trees or they would be all scraped up. We also have bobcats (and lynx) here and they are elusive but once in awhile we get to see them and their beautiful markings! Interesting post!
Thank you, Denise. I would love to see a lynx… I think they live more to the north and west of us.
Canada. They were actually reintroduced here some time ago.
My son saw one way up in Maine, so I guess they are starting to repopulate.
Wow! The best neighbors!
I agree! And generally, quite silent. 🙂
Yup! We, too have lots of fun footprints in the snow up on the hill. Same as yours, I think – do you have elk? Looks like deer? And the raccoon, rabbits, dogs of course, and the little furry rodents. Have fun!
Thanks, Bela! No elk here, we do have the occasional moose. 🙂
Right!
It’s so much fun to try to figure out animal tracks in fresh snow.
It is! I enjoy figuring out who has passed through, lots of cool tracks around here to check out. 🐾
I like it, too, even though I don’t recognize all.
How wonderful to see those tracks (and for you to know who left them!) So special to share your path with such a diversity of wild animals. I really enjoyed your record.
Thank you, Carol. Fresh snow tells the best neighborhood news. Now that the snow is melting, I have mud to read, then I’ll have to wait until the end of the year for the next snowy news. 😉