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NFT: Name This Beast

christian : 1/21/2024 5:18 pm
Hard to tell from the picture, but the full width of each is about 4-5 inches. I'm in the Hudson Valley. Is this character jumping around on one foot?

I can identify my neighborhood cat, fox, and coyote in the yard by size. This Sasquatch has me stumped.

Wild turkey?  
JCin332 : 1/21/2024 5:26 pm : link
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Something walking  
section125 : 1/21/2024 5:31 pm : link
in its own tracks. Notice the funny shape on left print.
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christian : 1/21/2024 5:32 pm : link
A one legged turkey?
RE: Something walking  
christian : 1/21/2024 5:33 pm : link
In comment 16373467 section125 said:
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in its own tracks. Notice the funny shape on left print.


Yeah something is crooked on the left.
it looks  
pjcas18 : 1/21/2024 5:36 pm : link
like some kind of cat maybe with something in it's mouth and whatever is in it's mouth hits the snow every step so you can't see the right foot print.

That's a mountain lion.  
Nomad Crow on the Madison : 1/21/2024 6:04 pm : link
I've had them in my backyard in NW CT.
Brandon Jacobs?  
rnargi : 1/21/2024 6:06 pm : link
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This guy  
State Your Name : 1/21/2024 6:09 pm : link
Cottontail  
gridirony : 1/21/2024 6:15 pm : link
would be my best guess. My understanding is that the SET of tracks is 4-5 inches wide?

Not even remotely close to a turkey.

Looks like they were made by a bounding/hopping critter. The front depressions are the rear feet, which basically all patterns look like. The front feet follow behind, but can be of multiple patterns, usually side-by-side, or one well behind the other. It looks like you have one front foot that is going directly into a rear foot pattern.
Looks like some kind of cat  
JohnG in Albany : 1/21/2024 6:27 pm : link
Unless I'm missing something (quite possible) I'm not seeing anything that provides scale.

DEC seems to have been going way out of their way to not allow for even the possibility of mountain lions being in the northeast, but it seems more than possible to me.



Relax  
Bill in UT : 1/21/2024 6:41 pm : link
it's a squirrel with a knee brace
Looks like someone  
eli4life : 1/21/2024 6:44 pm : link
Dropped 2 Cadbury eggs and a peep
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christian : 1/21/2024 6:51 pm : link
I think gridirony has called it. What's missing in the context of the picture is there is no corresponding "other" paw print. Unless something is jumping on one leg, those three prints are it for the beast.


According to doctor internet, this is a cotton tail.

RE: Looks like some kind of cat  
Nomad Crow on the Madison : 1/21/2024 7:03 pm : link
In comment 16373586 JohnG in Albany said:
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Unless I'm missing something (quite possible) I'm not seeing anything that provides scale.

DEC seems to have been going way out of their way to not allow for even the possibility of mountain lions being in the northeast, but it seems more than possible to me.

DEC does not want to admit there are mountain lions because then they have to protect them. i know they are there. i have seen them with my own eyes. DEC tried to tell me that I saw a bobcat, but bobcats don't have long tails.

That  
jtfuoco : 1/21/2024 8:08 pm : link
Is a rabbit i have about 4 that go across my property and that is their track profile
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eric2425ny : 1/21/2024 11:28 pm : link
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