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Foot Prints

I found the print at left in my back yard Sunday morning. I'm no expert on wildlife, but I would be surprised if told that was made by a deer, and it seems rather large for a coyote. That's my right foot beside it, by the way. For all I know it was made by a very large dog, or a neighbor with short, fat feet and no shoes.

Well, you can probably guess the animal that I think it might be. Having had a summer place in the Berkshires for a decade before we moved here, I'm familiar with the habits of that animal we will not mention for fear of scaring the heck out of people.

I know, for example, that if you forgot to clean up your grille and left it unattended on your deck overnight, you might be awakened in the very early morning by the sound of something large tearing that grille apart so as to be able to lick up everything you did not clean. You do NOT want to step out on your deck to investigate that noise; trust me, one of your neighbors probably was awakened too and is busily snapping pictures from the safety of their bedroom. You can look at the pictures later; arguing with the real thing about your sovereign rights to your deck probably wouldn't end well.

You also don't want to set up a suet bird feeder, even if it is wrought iron as one of our neighbors had. The important word there is "had", because it was apparently just a little too high for the feeding comfort of that animal we are not mentioning, and therefore had to be bent down to ground level for the suet to be more readily extracted. Interestingly, this wasn't early morning, it was late afternoon and my neighbor caught a shot of the suet sated animal still lurking in the bushes not twenty feet from his camper.

Because of these predations, and the crazed dogs that loudly announced their arrivals, our camp had strict rules about leaving out garbage, and even asked us not to put out bird food at one particularly bad point. No one ever got hurt, and I don't even think any grilles were totally destroyed, though that suet feeder disappeared immediately, because none of us were strong enough to unbend it..

I'd be very happy if one of the woodsman type readers of this site would calmly tell me that this print was actually made by a coven of squirrels engaging in a mating ritual, or even a small monkey whose owners have since reclaimed him. The links that follow are larger closeups:

Larger version of photo at left

What's your vote? Alien invader? Oak Point BigFoot? Squirrels mating? Lost monkey? Inebriated neighbor? Local politician? Please don't say it's that other thing..

Bob Cargen says:

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Re: Foot Prints, how 'bout a Northern Pines mower making a sharp turn on a wet lawn? Having a newly-sodded lawn, I've seen what a mess they can make.
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Well, oddly enough, that's what my wife said it was.. but lawn mower machines don't have toes, do they? - Tony