What Species Made This Track?

[HunterDave]

I stumbled across these tracks today in deep fluffy snow. What species?

[gman1978]

I have seen those tracks before and always assumed it was a long tail weasel but I sure could be wrong.

[Bushmaster]

I just googled long tailed weasel tracks in snow and came up with that exact track.

[blgoodbrand1]

Ermine


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[Northwinds]

I believe it's a small mink,as a rule of thumb a weasels track has one foot slightly ahead of the other,a mink is usually side by side and wider

[philintheblank]

I have seen tracks like that in most of the old farm yards i have been to. I guessed weasel as well, looks like a healthy size!

[Talking moose]

Kinda neat. 1 lazy jump 1 big jump 1 lazy jump 1 big jump. I believe the ones I’ve always seen were fairly symmetrical in jumps.

[HunterDave]

A long tailed weasel never even occurred to me. I don't think that they are very common around here and I always thought that they were more of a southern Alberta critter. We have lots of short tails but I never saw them leave a track like this, it's always four paw prints together as they bound. If that's the body print between the front and back legs it must be a nice size.

[Torkdiesel]

I just assumed you were casually throwing a bag of *****s out in the snow ahead of you 😂😂😂

[HunterDave]

It must have been a female because I think that I found the male's tracks.

[Big Grey Wolf]

Dave,your the only guy that walks around in the bush with one on!

[HunterDave]

In -15 weather the tracks would be a lot smaller than that.