Tracks on the Tracks

Today the temperature dropped even more down to around minus seven so we still have the snow and we now have a lot oft racks around from all the animals and birds, so today I have added a few of the ones I saw around........................

But first here is a shot of the male Chaffinch I said I would try to get - you can see he has a darker head and back of neck and the red  chest is far more prominent.

On leaving the house the first things I found were these they look like the old arrows they put on convicts uniforms, they are are made by our Chickens, the others are my size 8 boots and the ones at the bottom are cat Tiger's.

These are from our Mallards the still have three points but you can see the webbed joining sections. 

Although similar to the Chickens these are a lot lighter and thinner and belong to our Moorhens.

 

These all belong to Rabbits along the railway, you can see how they hop rather than walk plus how much they have been coming and going over the last two days.

Although at first glance they seem the same these are made by a Hare and have longer flatter back feet they use to push off and bounce with and do not really use their front ones in the same way as rabbits. 

Here we have a Mr Fox's paw prints. In the seventies the French government in their wisdom paid the farmers to remove hedgerows to give more productive large fields, similar to those in the US.

The farmers took the money but kept the fields the same size - this meant that the wildlife no longer had their green hedges to use to get from place to place, so they turned to the railways and now use them as byways, highways and motorways. The Foxes now use these to get from home to prey etc.

so we are always finding signs of them when out walking.

Finally a Great Tit looking for goodies in the snow..............