Stephanie spotted and planned a wonderful outing for the family this past Sunday. We went snowshoeing at the Montezuma Audubon Center in Savannah, NY. The program was called stories in the Snow and included a brief presentation by a staff person about tracking wildlife, and a guided tour around the area by snowshoe.
Just having had several inches of Snow made for great snowshoeing and animal tracking conditions. Above are some of the numerous rabbit tracks that we encountered on the walk.
As we made our way around the trails an extraordinary story unfolded in the tracks in the snow. The “story in the snow” took an exciting turn when a “perfect stepper’s” tracks joined the “hoppers” tracks.
As we followed the tracks out of the woods into this opening Sean proclaimed to the group, “Its a murder scene!”
Yes the “perfect stepper” tracks that had been accompanying the rabbits tracks were those of at least one coyote. The story that we followed ended with the coyote getting its meal. The person guiding us described our outing as one of the best of the year for the amount of tracks that we encountered.
It has really inspired us to want to get out and enjoy nature and the snow more this time of year.
Looks like a wonderful outing for the whole family. Love to you all.
Snowshoeing how fun! I have told Brad so many times we should start a little snowshoe/cross country ski place in the winter because his family has so much land and forest right around our place. I bet you had fun. It is hard to find things to do in the winter. I can’t even get out to play (because of my big belly) this winter which makes it even worse. I hope you go hiking again!
xoxo Jenny