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. These subadults roam the woods, possibly as a means of dispersal should their pond dry up, before changing back into their aquatic adult stage to carry on their species. Search for the newt along the edges of the marsh, and find the eft sauntering the logging roads after warm rains. If you can, observe the differences between the two. All rights reserved.