Welcome to the Animal Track page!
Kamana for Kids: The Young Naturalist Guide: Tracking pages 87 - 101 - Activity Summaries
- Basic Bobcats - pages 92 - 96 - A tracking activity is introducing which includes a box with flour and a treat for a backyard wild animal. It's called the "tracking box" activity. The idea is the animal jumps in the box or on the cookie sheet of flour, thus leaving tracks in the flour for students to sketch and photograph.
- Mid Merlins - pages - 97 - 99 - The "animal tracking box" activity continues. Students are to leave the experiment outdoors for two more weeks and to sketch new tracks that they find.
- Old Oaks - pages 100 - 101 - The "animal tracking box" activity continues for another two weeks with sketches requested for any new tracks found.
Who's Tracks are these?
These were definitely not tracks left from my dog Rochelle! Her tracks leave toenail prints since she won't let me trim her nails, so they're especially long. They're too large to be a house cat's. Hmmmm. Oh, boy! I found these during a 2012 February winter walk in the mountains near Abram's Creek Campground. I kept a watchful eye out for this animal or at least it was probably keeping a watchful eye out for us!
What bird do you think left these tracks?
This bird is a spring, summer and fall resident here at the small town motel I work at in the mountains of WV. It's a very common backyard bird. It took me a while to figure out what I should have known instantly. During the cool of the evening, this bird likes to sing a very flowy, laughing kind of song. Any guesses?