The Pocket Naturalist by Felicity Hart

Author:Felicity Hart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summersdale Publisher

• A paw print with five toes could be an otter or a badger. If there is a large pad behind the toe pads, it’s probably a badger.

• A paw print with four toes could belong to a fox or a dog. Look at the size of the rear pad – foxes have rear pads which are the same size as their toe pads, where as a dog’s rear pad is larger.

• Deer tracks are easily identifiable by the two sausage-shaped slots made by their hooves.

Aside from tracks, look out for burrows near the water’s edge, often with a patch of nibbled grass around the entrance, and piles of grass and stems with diagonal cuts at the end. These are all signs of water voles. Rats dig similar holes to water voles but they often have a heap of soil outside the entrance and the holes are connected by well-trampled paths. It is rare to see an otter but you might see their droppings (or spraints). These are 2–7 cm long and contain fish bone and scales. They smell very strongly of fish!

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