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Fjordforder
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Location: Mason/Kitsap County Demilitarized Zone Joined: Wed Aug 7, 2013 Posts: 4543
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Hey all, I`m not a hunter but I figure the crowd here may be able to lend a hand.
While down at the creek the other day I came across a really weird animal track in the mud, it had two long fingers about as long as your middle and pointer fingers and a smaller one pointing behind like a dog`s dew claw. I didn`t get a picture then and now that the creek is overflowing there`s no way to get one. There was another today though, partially submerged. Same size and shape, and pushed deep into the muck. According to my books it`s possibly some sort of large predatory bird. I`m sure it`s nocturnal since the dogs keep barking at something by the creek almost nightly. If it`s some kind of bird maybe the weather disturbed it`s nest or something? Might explain why it`s down here now. Thanks in advance and if I come across any more I`ll try to get a pic.
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delliottg
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Something like this Blue Heron's footprint?
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Thu Jan 21, 2016 2:33 pm |
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Fjordforder
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delliottg wrote: Something like this Blue Heron's footprint? Very similar, but the back toe was a bit longer and I didn`t see a third toe up front. Doesn`t mean one wasn`t there of course.
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Thu Jan 21, 2016 2:34 pm |
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Fjordforder
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Hey, I got down to the bottom of the hill at the creek where I found them. Wasn`t able to get any really good photos (no new tracks, only the remains of what were there) but here`s one of the area itself: This is what was left of the partially-submerged track, it was mostly washed away and I`m not 100% sure how well it shows up in the photo itself so I tried to show the general shape with my impeccable MS Paint skills.
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It's Bigfoot!
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Fjordforder
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WOD wrote: It's Tinyfoot! FTFY Someone else was saying it was a Velociraptor when I found the first one. That would explain why nobody`s been using my old bus stop for a while.
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Fri Jan 22, 2016 4:45 pm |
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toys in the toybox
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How deep were the impressions?? I can't think of any birds that are not at least 3 forward toes
What your describing g sounds more like a deer print that had maybe filled in a bit. Birds generally don't make enough noise to alert dogs, deer certainly do
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Fri Jan 22, 2016 5:08 pm |
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Fjordforder
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toys in the toybox wrote: How deep were the impressions?? I can't think of any birds that are not at least 3 forward toes
What your describing g sounds more like a deer print that had maybe filled in a bit. Birds generally don't make enough noise to alert dogs, deer certainly do On the first one I found (now long gone) it was about 2 and a half inches deep, the newer ones are maybe 3/4 an inch.
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olydemon
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I saw an Xfiles episode that started this way....
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Fjordforder
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olydemon wrote: I saw an Xfiles episode that started this way.... Good thing I`m basically Fox freaking Mulder to begin with, deadpan expression and everything.
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Fjordforder
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_________________"To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee! For hates sake I spit my last breath at thee! "Capt. Ahab I have never been, am not, and will NEVER be an NRA member. They sold me out a dozen times, just like they have you!"while CZ, SIG, FN, and Izhmash (hum...) are playing Hardball, American manufacturers are too busy playing Lawyerball." Want High end Russian military gear? PM me!
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jukk0u
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Chupacabra...
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toys in the toybox
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Put the tinfoil away kids.......deer. put a trail cam down there or look for signs of foraging...it's deer
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