Here is a technical tracking photo for you. It looks like a tiny hoof print. But it is actually the imprint of the body and feet of a chickadee as it sat on the ground. And I know this because I watched it land and take off from this exact spot.

In fact, that's a great way to learn tracking - watch the animals make their marks and then run over and examine them.

Then I drove to the end of Opeongo Lake and hiked across the frozen lake to the portage that leads to Little Minnow Lake.

Red Squirrel tracks on a fallen log.

The trail was thoroughly messed up by moose for part of the way!

If you look close you can also see the tracks of Snowshoe Hare running across the picture (from lower right to upper left).

Some moss and lichens in the snow on Little Minnow Lake.

On the way back I photographed this single moose track planted deep into the snow. It had changed its mind about which direction it wanted to go.

And the marks of a sapsucker on a Hemlock tree. Sapsuckers are birds that drill holes in trees to release the sap. They come back later to lick up the sap that drips out of the holes. But not in winter, of course, as sap is not running in the winter.

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