Scent mound.
Part of collection at state park visitor center
Epic tracking in a desert wash the morning after a thunderstorm. Special features of this species in one series of photos. Compared to gray fox, the tracks of this species are rounder, with more fur, and slightly smaller than gray fox.
Length 3.7 mm. Found infesting a dying Darlington oak stem (upper portion of the tree was dead, this was in lower portion which had many live epicormic sprouts). Female in short gallery with larvae.
Not sure about the ID.
26 FEB 2021 ANZA BORREGO DESERT: On our quarterly transect of the Narrows - while investigating woodrat nests - the Anza Borrego Desert Tracking Team came across what appeared at first blush to be a very large bobcat latrine under rip rap supporting the steep bank of Highway 78. The scats were all on the small side for bobcat - approximately 3/8 - 1/2" diameter - and not well segmented. A few were connected in typical tootsie-roll lengths but many were not. None of the team had ever seen anything like this before. We find lots of bobcat scat in the Narrows, much of it in latrines, but nothing under a rip rap wall in such a volume, and none of it this small.
I put a cam on the "scat cave" on 26 February and retrieved the
SD Card 14 March 2021. Seven animals appeared. Most notable was a Ringtail 26 Feb just a few hours after I departed. The scat matches Mark Elbroch's and James Lowery's descriptions for Ringtail.
Other images captured were of a Rock Wren, Black-throated Sparrow, Bryant's Woodrat, Merriam's K-rat, Peromyscus, Antelope Ground Squirrel and a Desert Cottontail.
San Diego Tracking Team and Anza Borrego Tracking Team trail camera wildlife monitoring of wildlife in the The Narrows area of Anza Borrego Desert State Park by permit with California state parks.
Found deceased on road; used gloves to handle for study photos and left the bird on-site after. I especially wanted to document those zygodactyl feet (pictured is a right foot) for gripping those vertical surfaces, as well as the stiff, downward-propping tail feathers that provide mechanical support to the body while pecking/ drilling.
This one has me a bit stumped! Knife is about 4.5 inches long.
Rodents chewing on an old bone for minerals
Pellets (not scat) exposed by wind at communal roost site.
Snowshoe
At work!
scat - appears to be insects inside
Digging, foraging by turkeys
Mouse feeding sign on an acorn still hanging on a Canyon Live Oak.
Foraging sign, digging in dry soil. Turkeys seen.
A set of long-tailed weasel tracks in a bound.
Molds of feet of a road-killed animal.
Feet of roadkilled animal.
Prints from a sooted track plate
Termites under a log. Interesting that they made trails to follow under there.
Acorns fed upon by mice. Found under log, with chatter on edges.
I followed this black bear trail through tall grass. The bears were feeding on the early spring grass that grows in this field.
Feeding sign on Douglas fir cones
The squirrel gnawed this branch off the tree. There were pollen cones that it wanted to feed on.
Millipede with millipede scat.
Along a muddy creek in a grassland/upland marsh,
The tiny tracks around the shell, NOT the oyster.
Would love Bear Tracker to weigh in on this one.
The fungus is growing on the outside of an Oak Gall.
C52 1759
First five pictures taken 7 July 2019. Next 10 pictures taken 8 July 2019.
Turtle den.
Black bear mark tree adjacent to old dirt road. Bear had decapitated the tree and bent the top off. The landowner later trimmed the tree remains off the road. Two types of sign are seen on the tree. Some of the branches show clipping by humans. The rest of the damage was caused by black bear.
Se encontro muerto por atropellamiento. Andaba en manada de 6 elementos.
larvae cases on red oak. from collection. Probably an Abbot's bagworm (from Track & Sign of Insects p248)
Approximately seven of these were found on a small red oak tree in front of Suffolk County Fire Station 6.
Tracks from a Harvest mouse under a bridge in San Diego. These are identified by their small size and by the low "thumb" on the hind feet (in the photo the two hind feet are above the fronts).
Also saw this species in the vicinity
Some tracks in silty mud appear as claws only with little to no digital pad register and no metacarpal or heel pad register
Stopped for one on the road and found a second one next to the road
North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains.
Furred pads
Multiple forays into puddle in campground (bold?)
Nails show in some tracks but not in others
Latrines