fieldtreking

snow....its great looking at all the tracks and trying to id them all, who and where there going,
what food have they been looking for.
rabbits, there easy enough but there not travelling in the direction you first think because they hop..pull the back legs through.
pheasants and magpies leave a trail from tail feathers a fox and his straight one in front of the other tracks.
wandering in, out and under hedgerows.
maybe stopping at a fresh mole hill if the snows not to deep.
i like to watch my dog picking up the different scents that wildlife has left behind.
brown rat with its almost hand like little prints, he sniffs that scent close to the ground head down, he pays more attention to rabbit scent though exited sniffing, breaths in deeply nose push into snow.
only pheasants seem to interest him from the bird world maybe he can remember when he was only afew months old and a cock burst into flight close by him and gave him a fright before he ran across the hay field head up watching it glide into the next field.
he wont catch anything nor do i want him to but watching his reactions to different scents is useful for when the snow has gone.
it gives me an idea of what might have been passing that way before me.