JAN'S LATEST CONUNDRUM REVEALED

We posted these the other day, and Paddy was correct in his assumption, but so was Dale D who wrote to me yesterday:

Unfortunately there is no way in the world I can get a photo to you at this time.

Our garbage can is on the landing at the end of the steps out the back door, and the squirrels (plus the raccoon) have basically turned the lid into a hoop by tearing out the top with their raids on it. This morning I saw that a squirrel had made four leaps from the garbage can to the neighbor's fence, leaving tracks in the snow. The house next door is situated such that the shadow of the house falls halfway along the space between the garbage can and the fence.

I just went and looked and the two near jumps in the sunlight have partially melted into the shape of Devil's hoofprints while the two jumps in the shadow are plainly squirrel tracks, in shape much like the hare tracks posted on the CFZ blog recently, but smaller.

So there is a clear demonstration of how the squirrel tracks can assume that outline, along with definitive proof of the identity of the track-maker.

Well done guys.