Visited again yesterday by our local flock of partridges, but this time on a thin layer of fresh snow
I love that their tracks are like little arrows trailing over the landscape, like on a secret treasure map, but pointing backward… to confuse the predators?
A couple of interesting tales in the snow on today's hike:
While there were plenty of rabbit/hare tracks in the snow, these look more like pine martin. Sadly, the snow was too fluffy to leave good details of the paw pad shapes!
And under an alder plant, a fabulous buffet for one lucky mouse! The alder cones had dropped their seeds on the snow, and in and around this manna from heaven a single track wove a maze.
a snowy day's solitude with a dog's joyful tracks
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David Mitchell 
Paws to Trail
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