In my backyard, they're usually cat tracks since my two indoor cats are often visited by a neighborhood prowler who likes to sit outside our window with a smirk on his pussycat lips. But, occasionally there are some very small tracks, which I would love to identify.
This year I'll be borrowing one of our animal tracking books, including Scats and Tracks of the Northeast by James C. Halfpenny [591.974 HAL], rather than speculate randomly. Well, maybe it's a chipmunk. Or perhaps a field mouse? Are squirrels' feet that small?
A fun outing with young kids would be to read either of the following and then take a walk in the woods.
Hodgkins, Fran. Who's Been Here?: A Tale in Tracks. [JP HOD]
[Note: The illustrator of this book, Karel Hayes, lives in New Hampshire. The book was published by a Maine publisher. You can be certain that the tracks represented are ones you're likely to find here in New England.]
Yee, Wong Herbert. Tracks in the Snow. [JP YEE]
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