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Eliza Waters 
Oh Eliza, these are lovely to see!
Thank you, Anne. It’s fun to see who is out and about while we sleep!
No straight path for the little mouse!! Love this!
🐀🐁🐀🐁🐀
Thanks, Deb. Most go in a fairly straight line, but the crazy pattern makes me wonder if two were playing a game of chase! 🙂
Haha, I love it. Bet the toes were cold when they got home 🤣❤️🙏
Most likely! 😉
Beautiful mouse Art 🖼️ 🥶
They really tell a story! 🙂
This is fascinating.
Thanks, Rupali. I esp. love the zigzag patterns, crazy little things!
Oh yes.
The trails are fascinating, but I still don’t like seeing them in my garden…. leading into a flower bed with lots of holes under plants! 😩
Oh, yes, very true. The mice aren’t as bad as the voles though, which can really do a lot of damage over the winter.
Sweet!
Thank you, Sheree. The snow reveals just how many critters share our landscape.
Busy mice. I hope they don’t move into your house for the winter.
Thanks. Many do attempt to come inside. Fall is a busy time trapping them, but not so busy now, thankfully.
Looks like it (they) did quite the workout!
They usually are all business going from A to B in search of food, but the crazy pattern indicates a ‘hot’ encounter, hehe! 😉
I’m thinking so!! 🙂
I’ve never seen mouse trails before, just mole trails! I’ll have to keep a lookout.
The long-tailed jumping mice are my favorites. Voles near my garden just make me mad, ha!
This one, or these, were stirring. Maybe looking for birdseed. So many tracks in our front & back yard, going under the deck.
One of winter’s great entertainments. 🙂
The tracks in the three smaller photos, particularly the one on the left, look like crewel work: the chain stitch stands out.
Thank you, Linda. The patterns are so fun to see!
Hi Eliza. Very sweet! MJ
Thanks, MJ!
Delightful! Perhaps there’s a Beatrix Potter kind if story there. This reminds me of the Easter day when our children and I opened the living room curtains to find bunny tracks in the snow. The magic of imagination… 😍🤩💕
Oh, what a joy that must have been for them. Wonderful serendipity! Thanks for sharing that memory, Shelley!
What a busy mouse going every which way. 😁
So fun to see, they tell quite the story. 🙂 Thanks, Pepper!
Aren’t they cool? Especially when they start looking like little mounds rather than concave. Cool unless those little tracks are making tracks to your attic or basement!
Yes, definitely! Not welcome in the house at all!
Wow, love these images! How cute.
Thank you, Monika. Can you imagine the soundtrack? 😀
Love these images, Eliza. Nature’s playful art!
Thanks, Jane. Very busy critters!
So cute!
They are, for sure. Super speedy, too!
Poor mice! I hope their fur provides some protection from the cold.
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They must move fast to survive, darting in and out. To linger risks freezing as well as predation. 🥺
It must be very interesting to keep an eye on who’s passing by. It’s a nice pattern those tiny feet have made too 😊
Thank you, Belinda. Tracking in snow is a lot of fun. 🙂
How sweet
There are several species out there, but my favorites are the long-tailed jumping mice. 🙂
How busy they are! Little creatures.
They move so fast! 🙂
Their lives depend on it.
Beautiful, and to us here quite amazing to see.
Thank you, they are fun to see. 🙂
Ohhh, I remember these. In New Mexico, there were rabbit trails as well. It’s fun to figure out how the feet fall in the snow to differentiate the tracks. 😉
Yes, tracking in the snow is a fun way to see who shares our land. We have LOTS of mice!
Interesting. In New Mexico it was gophers. In Maine before that, it was red squirrels – too many red squirrels! Buggers can’t get destructive. 😎
CAN get.
I love those little tracks in the snow! I know animals are used to the elements, but I can’t help but wonder about those tiny cold feet!
Yes, they go very fast as it is dangerous to be so exposed. Occasionally, I find one frozen who wasn’t so lucky, alas.
Wouldn’t you think those tiny feet would get too cold to handle snow. I love the little track it made.
Thank you, Vicki. They are at risk of freezing if they stop, but they run very fast with a high metabolism and dart back to a cosy nest quickly. I have found frozen ones in the past lying on top of the snow, but rarely.
Nice shadows and 3D look to the tracks. I see mouse and rabbit tracks every time I go out my front door. I see bird tracks in the backyard from the juncos and other backyard birds that come to out feeder.
Thanks, Tom. So many neighbors! 🙂
Looks like it couldn’t decide which way to go!
Or some ardent male was chasing a female! 😉
Aw, such busy creatures!
Aren’t they? Lots of them out there. 🙂
Great post for Wordless Wednesday! I love to view tracks in the snow.
Thanks, Beth. I’m always amazed after a snow to realize just how many others share our home!
These are so cool! Works of art!
Truly… thanks, Donna!
oh! how cute!
Thank you, they are our little unseen neighbors!
What a lovely way of putting it! xox
The patterns they make are outstanding. It truly is beauty in everything.
Thank you, Maria. So fun to see their crazy patterns!
Yes, preferably in the winter and not in your garden during the summer 🙂
There are probably more of them in summer, but harder to detect! 😀
In our Swiss garden they create elaborate tunnel systems under the snow during winter. As fascinating as it is I’d prefer to see less of them. In spite of the owls and snakes they’re such a nuisance here 🙈
I know what you mean… voles are the menace here. 🙂
These tracks are as charming as the one who left them behind. 🐁🐾. So cute 😊
Thank you!
Have you ever seen a mouse making one of those trails?
Yes, when we clean the bluebird boxes this time of year, there often is a squatter making a nest in there. They can run pretty fast!
So the squatter becomes a sprinter.
Awesome seeing and captures. Looks like it might have been dragging its tail!
Thanks, Denise. These are jumping mice, a lot like mini-kangaroos. 😉
Busy mousies!
They certainly were! 🙂