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Photo by Lindsy
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Field Notes

Description:

Small tracks from animal living at border of a marshy area. It looked like the tracks led to holes leading under the snow. Tracks were approx 1" in width. What would make these curlicue shapes?

Habitat:

Marsh bordering on a wooded a wooded area.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (6)
Gordon Dietzman
Well, I suppose it is more likely to be a vole than a shrew, simply because voles are far more common than shrews. Hope you can figure out what it is!
Lindsy
Thanks, Gordon! It could probably be either- think I'll head back there next weekend and see if I can get a better sense of it's size. I think it's probably a vole, though.
Lindsy
Thanks S Frazier and Telse!
Telse
Hmmm...yes very interesting. Perhaps this animal just loves the snow so much, it couldn't resist a few twirls. lol :)

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