If you wanted to know the differences among shorebirds, how
robins move, the stories in deer trails, and how to tell vole from deer mouse
tracks, you should have been at Tracking Club.
For intermediate trackers, these stations might have seemed elementary
at first, but they turned out to be layered and challenging. We had a good discussion about using the
tracking funnel (big picture map to small picture track detail) to decipher
partial and obscured tracks.
Participants were led to discover a beaver trail from a partial front
and the dog-like toes of two back tracks.
The robins across the river began alarming at one point and
those who were keeping themselves tuned to their surroundings caught sight of a
Red-tailed hawk. Later the bird wheeled
over us several times putting the sun behind it to show us the red in it’s
fanned out tail.
We had a great day in the sun on the banks of the river at Chinook
Bend.
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