Here is a kill site found by Lars on the frozen wetland of the northern section of Delaney Complex of Stow/Bolton/Harvard. Two sets of footprints came into the scene. On the above photo, one set of prints (2nd photo) comes in from 8 0'clock. The second set of prints (3rd photo) comes in from 4 o'clock. One of the feathers is 7 cm long. I was able to identify the bird feathers as from a downy woodpecker from this website (4th photo):
U.S. National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory's Feather Atlas Website
http://www.lab.fws.gov/featheratlas/index.php
Some of those tracks appear mighty minky to me, Lars. Any measurements?
ReplyDeleteI was thinking fisher for the second photo, but so hard to tell from the picture.
ReplyDeleteI'm not looking at a 'coon hand print in that 3rd photo?
Something for scale would be helpful.
And who knows the sequence of events with so little remaining of the bird.