The boys were out in the hills over the weekend hunting foxes. By Sunday, when they checked Sanna, they were satisfied that not a fox existed west of the Ardnamurchan Estate fence.The Diary has news for them. When we walked up the hill at the back of Ormsaigbeg on Sunday morning, the snow was pitted with the tracks of foxes - see picture. They criss-crossed the hill, they seemed to go in circles, they moved back and forth.
Perhaps the foxes had inside intelligence of what was about to happen. Perhaps they knew they'd be safe in Ormsaigbeg. Perhaps the fox population was all here for a Saturday night party, dancing... the foxtrot?
It looks more like an otter track, see the line between the paw prints this looks like an otters tail dragging along the snow.I might be wrong though.
ReplyDeleteSue - This might explain why one set of tracks ended abruptly in the burn. I assumed a fox had had one too many and fallen in.
ReplyDeleteIts easy to tell the difference. Otters, like all mustelids, have 5 toes. Dogs, foxes, cats have 4.
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