what made these?...

[DMadden]

Found a few tracks when I ventured 'off the beaten track' round a forest recently. I have narrowed the culprits down, but I'm holding my breath until I see what you guys think.

1..(no 'official' scale, but you can probably see that it's quite small by looking at the blades of grass surrounding it)


2.. (the next 2 photos are the same print, just different angles. And I have used my 52 mm lens cap as a scale)




Any ideas??

Thanks for looking,
Dan.

 

[marcusleftthesite]

Any water nearby?

 

[DMadden]

Very close to a small stream that was running into a Tarn. The whole area was quite boggy too.

 

[marcusleftthesite]

I'm probably totally wrong but I'll say young Otter.

 

[JonathanD]

I'd say Mink from the size of them.

 

[DMadden]

I thought it was from a rabbit?!
And the second and third photos are from what I thought might be Roe or Fallow deer.
But I could be very wrong

 

[JonathanD]

Actually, looking at them again, I'd say they were both Roe deer. Sorry, I'm on my iPhone and the images are quite small. The print is too flat to be made by anything with pads. The top pic is uniformly flat, I can't quite make out the bottom two on this.

 

[Les Marshall]

Could it be a muntjack?