Tracks in the Snow

On Friday, I was looking around outside and came upon some very interesting tracks. I'm not a tracker at all, but this looked to me a lot like a cat. Not a house cat, either. Way too big, plus my cats won't go more than a nose-length outside when it's real cold!

The unknown animal continued between my house and my northmost shed, leaving a good series of tracks. Each print was, of course, the size of the one above.


Additionally, some animal had dug a burrow into the snow and under some wood that's out there. The opening shown here is probably about five inches in diameter. A few feet away, there was another one of these.