| If a detective were tracking down a criminal, he | | | | woodpeckers. |
| would first find out about the mans habits and | | | | The Deer |
| customs of living so he would have some idea of | | | | Shape of Hoof: Oval, smaller than all other hoofed |
| where to start his search. To track animals, too, | | | | animals, 3/4 "- 1" long, 11/8"-11/2" wide. Dewclaws |
| you must know about their way of life. | | | | visible only in tracks while fleeing. |
| It would be most unusual to find a fox in a city | | | | Droppings: Dark brown, longish acorn shape, up to |
| park or a badger in the deepest forest, nor would | | | | 3/8" thick, 3/8 "-1/2" long, found in sparse woods |
| you ever suspect a swamp animal of making | | | | and forest. |
| tracks in a dry, fallow field. Every animal has its | | | | Feeding Grounds: Clearly visible in the winter as |
| own natural habitat, which of course frequently | | | | trough-shaped spots scraped through the snow in |
| cuts across those of other animals. In general we | | | | the woods. In the summer: spots dug through the |
| have a pretty good idea of where different | | | | leaves. |
| animals make their homes. | | | | Traces on Trees: Strips of bark torn off between |
| Foxes, rabbits, mice, jays, and birds of prey can | | | | 20" and 35" from the ground. |
| be found in or over open countryside. Deer (up to | | | | Antlers of the Buck: The buck deer drops his |
| about 6000 feet), rabbits (mountain hares up to | | | | antlers in the late fall and, beginning in March (April |
| 8000 feet), mice, moles, weasels (up to 8000 | | | | is the high point for this), rubs the velvet off |
| feet), and woodchucks can be found in the | | | | against young softwood trees. The bark is |
| mountains and hills. Mice, otters, polecats, | | | | scraped off and branches are broken. In front of |
| mouse-owls, plovers, storks, cranes, wild ducks | | | | the tree you might also find spots where leaves |
| and geese live near the water. | | | | and earth are thrown up and scraped to the rear. |
| In the forests and woods you find: Deer, stags, | | | | Voice: Deep, loud bellow: burr, burr, burr, burr is |
| rabbits, squirrels, moles, foxes, badgers, martens, | | | | the scolding of a frightened buck. A lighter, loud |
| polecats, mice, finches, thrushes, crows, hawks, | | | | "boy, boy" is the doe cry. |
| magpies, pheasants, buzzards, wood-owls, and | | | | Tracking of animals become more easy if you are |
| woodpeckers. | | | | well aware of thier habitant. Sometimes due to |
| The following live in meadows, fields, and sparsely | | | | the lack of awareness of animals habitant many |
| wooded spots: Rabbits, field mice, hamsters, | | | | people often fails to recognized the habitant of |
| moles, foxes, weasels, polecats, occasional | | | | animals and waste their times in seaching in |
| badgers wandering through, partridges, magpies, | | | | different other places. |
| buzzards, falcons, crows, mouse-owls, and | | | | |