Any ideas what these are?
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Hard to be sure without an idea of scale. Last week I was skiing on the Champlain Parkway and I saw what I’m pretty sure was a fisher cross the road. It was large, brown and weasel-like. Those tracks would resemble yours but would be much larger than a fox. They would be well over an inch long. Check out this photo http://www.pbase.com/mwalker427/image/75425271
Has to be the Yeti – Well perhaps a baby Yeti
These were roughly the size as putting my thumb and index finger together, perhaps even a bit bigger. I should have measured them!
I saw the same tracks on Burma on Friday. Small bear?
They look like raccoon tracks to me.
I’d second the fisher suggestion, except for the size. Without seeing the scale or larger-scale pattern it is hard to be sure. Raccoons have longer ‘fingers’, foxes are rounder and more dog-like. There seemed to be lots of fisher tracks around over the winter. However, a thumb+finger doesn’t seem big enough. So maybe a small fisher or the fisher’s little brother, the marten?
A fisher crossed the Fortune Parkway (just past Gossip) about 50 ft in front of me today. Same tracks and definitely not a Marten.
I second the mustelid hypothesis. Five toes, slightly curved toward the middle… An adult fisher track would be between 2 and 3 inches wide. A pine marten would be maybe half that size.