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10-02-2009, 06:19 PM
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| | | My First Post - Unidentified Tracks
I hope to get off to a good start in the forum by successfully identifying these tracks made during the night, taken a few days ago. I cannot imagine what could make such a track, given the distance of maybe 2 metres between each set. The tracks go from one hedge to another, maybe 100 metres. Whatever it was was surely running/leaping? There was no detail of claws or pads inside each individual print. Occasionally in the garden we see foxes and small deer. My daughter is in the photo to give scale. 
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10-02-2009, 06:29 PM
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| | | Re: My First Post - Unidentified Tracks
welcome to WAB  I'm not sure but they don't look like deer to me - we have them here and they are very different
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10-02-2009, 06:41 PM
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| | | Re: My First Post - Unidentified Tracks
No idea,strange set of prints, but welcome to WAB |
10-02-2009, 06:55 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Derbyshire
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| | | Re: My First Post - Unidentified Tracks
Welcome to Wab 
There are also more tracks that have filled with snow suggesting a party  of some kind. No idea other than a dog  |
10-02-2009, 07:01 PM
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| | | Re: My First Post - Unidentified Tracks
Welcome aboard!
Nice tracks, too. I like these. They show a classic 'C-pattern' gallop
It's called this because the groups of tracks are supposed to curve round like a letter C. It happens when an animal runs at speed with a long bound between footfalls.
I don't actually know what the tracks are, but I've seen fallow deer make trails like this. The other possibility is a dog. I've sat on a beach and watched dogs running up and down at full pelt and then tracked them afterwards, and they make a very similar pattern.
If it is going from hedge to hedge, then my guess is a deer in a hurry. Good find, and well photographed - are you very tall?
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10-02-2009, 07:18 PM
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Don't mess with me, I'm 8 feet tall!! Actually this was taken from a first floor window. I can imagine it was a deer rather than a dog in this particular neighbourhood of trees and waterways. |
10-02-2009, 07:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Badger Watching Man  Welcome aboard!
...If it is going from hedge to hedge, then my guess is a deer in a hurry. Good find, and well photographed - are you very tall? | LOL it is rather high up  like your style Badger Watching Man, very subtle |
10-02-2009, 11:11 PM
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I have no idea what it is but would guess at deer..
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10-02-2009, 11:23 PM
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Hi Mushypeas
I would go for Hare in full flight, at speed they will easily cover the distance, the size shape and pattern is correct and the track from hedge to hedge is right. If it is Hare half of tracks will be slightly larger than other half.
Roy
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