Animal Tracks

Animal tracks in sand. All of these animals live or visit the beaches, dunes and tidal flats of Cape Cod. Go out and find some. I expect coyote and crow will be the most frequently observed. Note that bounding animals like cottontail rabbit, gray squirrel, red squirrel and white-footed mouse all land with hind feet in front. Raccoons, opossum, meadow vole and canids walk rather than bound.

Fowler's Toad

White-footed Mouse: bounding, going left, hind feet in front.

Red Fox, American Crow, Piping Plover, Black-bellied Plover, and shoe. Note larger Black-bellied track and Piping Plover track show no hallux. Also note visible digit joints in crow tracks.

Horned Lark nest. Note tracks all over. (How to find a larks nest: follow the tracks.)

Opossum: going left. Horned Lark: going left (long hallux or back toe print obvious).

Raccoon: hind foot above

Eastern Coyote. American Crow, and Great Blue Heron

Eastern Coyote in sand. Front foot and heel pad are larger than hind foot print.