Bobcat prints measure 2 inches wide and 2 inches long with four toes. They make strides of 10 to 14 inches. When given the chance, most animals will choose to take the easiest route. That's why trails and old roads are great tracking locations. Along the logging roads search for bear tracks where they stopped to eat from berry bushes.
Grouse are common trail crossers, leaving their four-toedfootprints close together.
The prints of the turkey are nearly identical but three times larger, the same way that deer and moose tracks match except in size. Woodcock spiral skyward in their spring courtship dance, to land again along these makeshift runways. You may also notice ruffed grouse balancing precariously from low branches, eating new buds and berries. Red efts glow like embers from the leave litter. They are the rebellious terrestrial forms of red spotted newts.