Cats are fed. All is well with the world.
Oliver, who eats twice as fast as the others, did a good job. He appeared sated.
Cats content to sit indoors in the sunshine,
I went for an hour's walk in the forest.
On a Friday morning there were only a few snowmobiles out.
I love the weeping rock, the beautiful colours, brushed with layered snow from our recent snow squalls. It looks like ice cream!
I saw deer tracks coming out of the forest across a pretty slushy bay - they avoid the open lake.
And then more tracks, by a large monster, path soaked by excrement that melts the snow.The forest opened out onto a shallow bog and lake. You can see where the monsters just missed the trees, and how the shallow bog freezes and thaws at Mother Nature's whim. The shallow bogs have much less temperature inertia of the larger lakes. But I haven't heard that we've lost anyone in these bogs yet...
The wolves (I think they are wolf tracks: large paws, and can't be dogs!) amble across the train tracks and the open frozen lake. It looked like there were three sets of tracks.You can tell it is a wolf by the size of the tracks and the stride length. They are larger than the size of my palm. I wasn't TOO nervous, except that the monsters keep them more nocturnal than diurnal, and I saw my lone wolf at dusk.
Then, of course, the ubiquitous train tracks! I love hearing the whistle at night.
Looking behind, my snowshoe tracks!
Mouse tracks...teeny weeny ones. From time to time I spotted more wolf tracks but they tend to avoid midday, since the snowmobiles abound. Very few squirrel tracks. They are more dormant without bird feeders to keep them in food in this remote part of the woods. I made my way back to 'civilization'...and spotted the place where the stream flows into the apparently frozen lake. Watch your step!
It is important that the snowmobiles follow the path created by the OFSC.
Nearly home, 50' from shore, I spotted a small, round, open hole of melted water. I just don't know what it is! But I trod carefully around it!
This morning, I spotted what I think are red fox or coyote tracks. They are smaller than the wolf, and s/he ambles across our property, looking for squirrels and mice. She wanders through our forest almost every day. The tracks are between the triangle formed by the dock, my showshoe prints and the shore.
17 comments:
Thanks for taking us along on your outing.
Great set of photos, love the wintry scenes and the kitties.
It is beautiful with all the snow. Perhaps some of your Golden Eye and Red-breasted Mergansers are wintering down in Gloucester, MA with us?
What a delightful walk thru the woods Jenn. Love seeing all the natural tracks and knowing who was here before. Be careful around those wet spots please. Excellent photos of your cold snowy world.
Jenn: Love your header with the stream. Nice way to share the critters with all the tracks across the snow.
Beautiful series of winter images, but I love that face on the black kitty! What a beauty!!!
I think those are fox tracks... foxes leave their footsteps in single file, like a strand of pearls. Coyotes, and wolves, move more like dogs, a little off-set in the stride. So when you find this "dotted line" of tracks about the size a cat would make but farther apart, you've most likely found Reddy Fox.
Mmmmmmmmmmm, I love cats. The black furbaby especially is so photographic!!!
Here is my C C...do hope you can stop by sometime today.
I enjoyed this outing with you and love Muskoka in the summer as we travel north to visit family.
Thanks for taking us with you on your walk! The kitties would have got bogged down in the snow if you'd taken them.
Great Entry! God Bless!
Beautiful photos!
I haven't seen a blue sky in what seems like WEEKS! Thanks for the "uplift"!
Pearl
What a lovely walk in the woods. Lots going on there!
I'm sure you're right, Nancy, but the ones across the lake are HUGE, and there seem to be three sets woven into one. As I said, you can tell by the stride length and the paw size.
Nice photos, Jenn!
you are a great tracker, nice photo too..
greeting from Bandung Indonesia
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