Thursday, February 12, 2009

Who's Been Walking Across My Lawn?

This week it seems that the elements have been having a bit of a battle, while the boys and I watch from inside our warm house. In the morning it will be snowing, windy and miserable-- only to have all the snow melt a few hours later while the sun tries to break through the clouds.

Regardless of the weather, we still occasionally have to go on a quick walk to look at the construction equipment where they are building a church near our house. After all, what little boy doesn't like BIG tractors?


Earlier this week we woke up to find a layer of slushy snow covering everything. When I went outside to assess whether the driveway needed to be shoveled (or if it would all just melt later), I discovered some interesting tracks across our lawn.

After staring at them for a minute, I decided that they definitely were NOT dog or cat paw prints.


I'm not a boy scout, so I didn't know what kind of prints they were. There seemed to be only one thing to do... I grabbed my camera and snapped a couple of photos. After doing some research online (I am a librarian after all), I think they could be raccoon tracks.


I could be wrong though because I know I haven't seen any raccoons here in the suburbs. What do you think?


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36 comments:

  1. sounds like a good possibility to me

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  2. Those could easily be raccoons. They are becoming more and more confident in suburban situations (I had to do tons of research on them for a pest control site I was writing for recently). That said...seeing those would freak me out a little. But I LOVE that you took pictures!!!

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  3. Wow-still going for walks in this weather?

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  4. Oh my gosh!! The first thing I thought was bear! How close were you standing to those when you took the picture??

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  5. I vote raccoons! Cute shots of the little pawprints.

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  6. Oh wow, I have no idea but thats kinda scary.

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  7. Oh yeah, them's racoon tracks, right there

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  8. I agree. They do look like they could be raccoon tracks. What great pictures, though. The tracks show up so well.

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  9. Totally raccoons I'd say. We've had them in our yard and they definitely look like that in snow. And I WISH we had snow that would just melt so we didn't have to shovel!!! Great pictures!

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  10. I've heard of people who live in the suburbs and they've had raccoons. Your camera takes great pictures.

    BTW, I grabbed your botton for my blog, assuming that's o.k.

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  11. That was my guess. Don't get to close, they can get vicsious.

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  12. Wow! And yikes! Love that you researched it!!!

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  13. yes, raccoon - foraging for food in your trash

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  14. I love mysterious paw prints...as long as they are not in my yard. I say raccoons too. They used to climb up our deck and raid our bird feeders. We would turn on the light and there would be between 6 and 10 on any given night. It was fascinating, unusual and sometimes scary that these wild creatures were so close to us!

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  15. Definitely raccoons! They look cute, but man are the naughty little scurrying creatures!

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  16. Maybe raccoon tracks or possum tracks? yikes :)

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  17. Those are very cute prints. I think a raccoon is a great guess.

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  18. Those sweet snaps are looking pretty "raccoony" to moi! BTW...when the kids were little, "short" errands always ended up taking hours. We had to stop at EVERY construction sight to view EVERY piece of equipment...sometimes getting out of the car to do so!

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  19. Those are definitely raccoon prints. :)

    My boys would be SO EXCITED by the construction trucks. Whenever we come across some working I stop to let them watch. Boys and their trucks. ;)

    Thanks for stopping at my blog! :)

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  20. Raccoon is what I thought of too. Cool prints though!

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  21. The tracks look creepy lol. But how cool to see the machinery! Awesome pics :D

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  22. Definitely. Look out for garbage strewn across the yard and shoot on sight!!! (well, that's what we do, but we live out in the middle of nowhere and there's no such thing as pest control because all the farmers just do it themselves!)

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  23. Definitely raccoon tracks. We have raccoons climb up on our front porch all the time. They crawl up on the tongue and groove corners of the porch and hide (they think if they cover their eyes and can't see you that you can't see them) I got brave one night and actually picked one of the babies up with gloves on (of course). For some reason they were very tame.

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  24. Racoons it could be.

    I love that picture of your son and the tractors... he must have been in heaven.

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  25. It's a mysterious creature! I'll send the Babies to sniff him out.

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  26. Raccoons are everywhere. I've seen them climbing up our trees here!

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  27. Yikes! That would scare me to see something like that. It could be raccoon, but who knows? Did you ever find out?

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  28. DEFINITELY raccoons hun! Be sure to keep your trash secure or you will have a problem!! Your little man is SUCH a doll!!!

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  29. Don't forget to email me questions to answer!!

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  30. raccoon tracks was my first guess when I saw them, before I read.

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  31. That's what I thought when I first saw them! Fun activity to do with the kids! (looking up the prints on line)

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  32. I agree with everyone who is suspecting raccoons! They are sneaky.

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  33. yes, those are raccoon tracks. i grew up in rural arkansas where we actually looked for tracks all of the time! those are raccoon tracks, but you probably won't see one unless you are using a spotlight at night or unless one of your neighbors runs over one...

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