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This entry was posted on January 29, 2020 by Mary Holland. It was filed under January, Mystery Photo .
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Deer
January 29, 2020 at 7:30 am
Deer me
January 29, 2020 at 7:33 am
Wild turkeys
January 29, 2020 at 7:35 am
deer
January 29, 2020 at 7:45 am
bats?
January 29, 2020 at 7:49 am
Turkey?
January 29, 2020 at 7:51 am
Juncos feeding on spores. They are munching on my pitcher plant blossoms now gone to seed in my backyard.
January 29, 2020 at 7:54 am
Turkeys!
January 29, 2020 at 8:02 am
Wild Turkey
January 29, 2020 at 8:02 am
Wild turkey
January 29, 2020 at 8:05 am
Turkey eat them if there’s nothing else
January 29, 2020 at 8:10 am
turkey
January 29, 2020 at 8:23 am
I think it is wild turkeys
January 29, 2020 at 8:23 am
Turkey
January 29, 2020 at 8:33 am
Looks like Deer prints, although they aren’t deep in the snow.
January 29, 2020 at 8:35 am
Looks like Bambi to me
January 29, 2020 at 8:38 am
Rabbit, just a guess.
January 29, 2020 at 8:41 am
Rabbits? Or possibly mice/voles?
January 29, 2020 at 8:42 am
Turkeys
January 29, 2020 at 8:47 am
I think it is wild turkeys.
January 29, 2020 at 8:48 am
Wild Turkeys.. Linde McZnanara
January 29, 2020 at 8:49 am
Turkeys
January 29, 2020 at 9:06 am
🦃 turkey?
January 29, 2020 at 9:09 am
I’m thinking that wild turkeys were feeding on the ferns, looks like turkey footprints around the bases.
January 29, 2020 at 9:10 am
Snowshoe Hare
January 29, 2020 at 9:49 am
Rabbit
January 29, 2020 at 9:29 am
Snowshoe hare
January 29, 2020 at 9:47 am
I am going to take a leap and say porcupine-just based on the tracks.
January 29, 2020 at 9:58 am
A few weeks ago, I saw what looked like about 20 Hershey’s kisses on a gravel road. They were chocolate brown, but on closer inspection of one of them, there was a bit of white at the base, which indicated to me that they were bird droppings. I surmised that they must have been turkeys that had been eating sensitive fern fertile fronds! Keep your eyes out for these “special” Hershey’s kisses this Valentine’s Day!
January 29, 2020 at 10:00 am
finch? Tracks are too small for turkey and its not a rabbit
January 29, 2020 at 10:40 am
Ruffed Grouse is my guess.
January 29, 2020 at 11:39 am
Before opening up the website, my natural assumption was wild turkeys, however as Susan Cloutier has already guessed, I’ll go with her guess. A very plausible guess imo. I had a grouse about 40′ below my enclosed porch at dawn yesterday morning picking last falls raisin shaped grapes off a vine tangled up in the brush. Had my 10 x 42 Vortex glass on it for about 20 minutes as it swallowed them hole & down the gullet… :~)
January 29, 2020 at 1:01 pm
finches or chickadees?
January 29, 2020 at 2:58 pm
wild Turkey
January 29, 2020 at 3:09 pm
Could it be fox. Many tracks around our house in NH.
January 29, 2020 at 5:32 pm
turkey or ruffed grouse
January 29, 2020 at 6:04 pm
wild turkeys eating sensitive fern
January 29, 2020 at 6:17 pm
Some kind of bird (? Grouse) foraging for seeds?
January 29, 2020 at 7:31 pm
I want to say wild turkeys, but the prints don’t look big enough. I do love Jon Binhammer’s chocolate kiss report, though…but maybe as others have suggested, grouse eat sensitive fern fronds as well so that would make sense for the smaller footprint.
January 30, 2020 at 5:56 am
Turkey
January 30, 2020 at 9:31 am