Naturally Curious is supported by donations. And I haven’t even begun to dissect, photograph, label and write about the contents of what led me on this adventure! Beloved chocolate lab swims up to raft, I hold onto her neck and she pulls us to shore, camera intact. Balancing the camera on the raft, I paddle, first with one hand and then with both (at one corner), trying to move this 15’ x 15’ wooden structure in the direction I want it to go. ORANGE COUNTY TRACKERS, Dick Newell, animals, wildlife biologists, grad students, interpreters, rangers, naturalists, docents interested in enhancing their. The pictured scats appear to be multiple deposits, which can denote a marking post (coyotes commonly do this), but it is also typical of raccoon. However, gray fox, raccoon, and coyote scat diameters and contents can overlap, especially in an sub/urban setting. The following describes my morning yesterday: out for a walk, visit a pond, see scat on a big, wooden raft that has floated near shore, manage to leap onto raft to take a picture of the scat, photograph scat and then look up to see that my leap has shoved the raft away from the edge of the pond, and I’ve drifted out into the middle of said pond. If the diameter of the scats is 3/4' or more, we can rule out foxes.
Who would have guessed that raccoons are quick enough or interested enough in dragonflies to catch them? (NB: Do not do as I did – do not touch or dissect raccoon scat as it can contain bacteria, ticks and Baylisascaris roundworms which can cause neurological damage.)Īs an aside, I thought it might be of interest for readers to know what goes into the making of a Naturally Curious post. Further examination of the contents revealed that raccoons are fast enough to catch dragonflies – something I wouldn’t have necessarily known and most likely wouldn’t observe in the field. One quick glance at the shape and size of the pictured scat confirmed that a raccoon had been in the vicinity and bits of crayfish exoskeleton in it indicated that the raccoon fed from the nearby pond. Usually tubular and contains whatever they have recently eaten (e.g., berries, seeds. Not everyone enjoys discovering what an animal eats by dissecting its scat, but for those of us who do, the revelations can be worth the effort. Raccoon Track Raccoon Tracks Raccoon Track.
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