Speaking of creatures ...

Not much time to post, but I want to get these images up -- Yesterday afternoon when I went to the research barn about 3:30, I found tracks in the fresh snow. Something had wandered back and forth in the drive in front of the barn, kind of ambling, looking about. I reckon it was a crow -- and I photographed its tracks.

Earlier in the winter I also took photographs of other tracks: rabbit, I think, and deer. 

There are lots of deer tracks, and I must try to get a better photograph of them. I saw a trail yesterday when I walked, but the tracks had been half filled in by the blowing snow. However, last night as I was eating dinner six deer picked their way across my view. Utterly lovely. 

But that's not it for creatures -- I also photographed this mysterious stuff -- 

After consulting with Robin Marushia ... might it be a fungus? ... the conclusion is: SCAT ... likely coyote scat. The animal appears to have been eating fruit and/or vegetables ... a vegetarian coyote?