I'm with the 30 plus years of tracking animals in the woods crowd. That is not a deer. Possibly.......a rabbit. Would love to have more pics, oh well.

I'm still intrigued by the lack of tracks coming in. Possibly the animal sidled up to the house during the storm for protection, then walked off afterwards, leaving only the outbound tracks.

Originally posted by samureyed
as the foot was lifted the snow collapsed back down into the print.

That was what I thought on my first post, however if you look at the third pic you can see that the track looks very shallow. If it were a deeper print I would say you were absolutely right. I have seen collapsed snow into the toe end of deer prints many times. Maybe the prints are deeper than I think and the snow is so loose that it's making the entire print look shallow. Holy crap this is irritating! Especially when I should know what made the prints.

If I could only look at it live it would be easy to identify. That's what bugs me so much.

If the snow was extremely loose and dry then deer! If not, rabbit! (even with Penny's proof of rabbit track)

I just can't spend any more of my valuable time on this.....LOL! Who am I kidding? My time is not very valuable at all....

It was probably 2 rabbits wanting to make more rabbits so, they just looked in your window to learn how!

looks like a average deer tbh no thin special sorry m8

Originally posted by Genus_Unknown
...ok my fellow Crypto seekers, I wanted to share a couple of pictures with you I took about 2 weeks ago. We had just had a snowfall, and I opened my bedroom window (my condo is on the ground floor) and I noticed these tracks right below my window, heading away.

It's a rabbit. The rabbit walked along the side of the house got spooked by noise inside the house (possibly you moving towards the window) the rabbit bounded off into the night.

Factors saying rabbit not deer or anything else

tracks are in a straight single line, deer tracks (as shown in previous posts) are in two lines like our own tracks are in two lines.

The tracks are clearly of two halfs within the one track which means either two feet close together or cloved hoofs (but as cloved hoofs are on larger animals the tracks would be in two lines and would be deeper)

The final evidence they are rabbit is the depth, they are not deep, if they were deer or devil beast they would have been pressed all the way down to the soil. The OP only gave us one photo of his foot, but even in that photo you can clearly see that his foot is sunken into a deeper track that that of the rabbit. Because he weighs 70 times more than the rabbit.

Rabbits only make 3 point tracks when they are ambling along at leisure, spook them and they wil run, and their stride will increase




[edit on 29/2/2008 by Wig]

Good job!

I think this one is satisfactorily debunked!

Wascally wabbits!

After liberal application of Tobasco, this rabbit divulged to me that it was, in fact, "spooked" out from under your window after a snow.

The subject moved into my perimeter and I apprehended it. The aforementioned method of intel extraction is shown (picture):


Happy to help!

[edit on 29/2/08 by cbianchi513]

Went back to the pond today 2-8-2009, just as the recent 4-6 inch snowfall is beginning to melt. Some odd tracks. I immediately figured deer, as other deer tracks are nearby. But these are more like a horse. Oval shaped, almost like a horse shoe, open in the back, and a raised place in the middle. All are perfectly in line and close to each other. About 10 inches between each. The prints are 5" across and 7" long. I know the snow melting will distort them and their size, but they still look odd to me.

I particularly notice they were in a perfect line, and not side-by-side.

Any ideas ?

Being a country bumpkin, I'd say that in my opinion that these are deer tracks. And deer in the winter time do get closer to where humans live in their search for food, as it often has to search over a wider area to find it, especially if there are other deer in the area. This makes whatever food sources for them dry up even quicker in the winter time.

Moose pluralized is Moose.

And those tracks look somewhat snowed over. So, maybe the deer came on over and found something tasty to munch on, and stayed awhile. You know just chilling eating some shrubbery. The other tracks snowed over. It bounded off to do more deer things. You came and found the new tracks and didn't see the other tracks because they snowed over.

I'm going with moose. I've seen moose hoof prints the size of dinner plates!

Or maybe a megamouse! Yeah, that's him! But I thought he retired....

Originally posted by adigregorio
I used to live in a snowy area myself, and I have seen these types of tracks before. In my opinion they are rabbit tracks.

100% agree with you, Rabbits