These tracks along the Opeongo Road puzzled me for a bit, until I realized they must be that of Red Fox. Fischer and Marten almost never move with such a regular gait (track pattern). This fox travelled about a kilometer along the road, almost never varying its gait (which is rather typical of Red Foxes).

Closer view of the Red Fox tracks.

Normally Red Fox make a tidy trail of single tracks, when they are walking. But when trotting they leave behind these paired tracks.

I followed an Otter trail as it crossed a frozen wetland. Otters will sometimes travel great distances by sliding along the snow - not just downhill. They push themselves along with their feet. Here the otter's paw prints are visible in the sliding trail.

Mink will also do this, and this year I saw a very nice example of this along the Spruce Bog Boardwalk trail.

A Snowshoe Hare "highway".

Wolf tracks near the beginning of Opeongo Road.

A Red Squirrel. Yes, very cute! :)

And some Red Squirrel tracks.

I saw plenty of mammal tracks during the ten days: marten, fisher, moose, red squirrel, otter, mink, mouse, shrew, red fox, snowshoe hare.
And bird tracks too: blue jay, grey jay, ruffed grouse, raven. But I either didn't get any photos, or the tracks were degraded due to snow and melting, or else I had plenty of photos of a particular species' tracks already.

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