Waking up to another sunny winter day prompted me to retrace some of yesterday's steps and once again I found myself interested in prints left behind in the snow. Most of the turkey prints I saw yesterday were faded today, probably because of the action of the light but steady winds on the prints. In the sheltered forest the hare prints were still much in evidence and there I also found some tiny prints that were left behind by a small mammal.
 
Here a pile of litter on the ground suggested that a porcupine had been around. I wasn't too sure about that because I didn't see the urine soaked snow or piles of discarded twigs that I have seen at other porcupine litter sites. These are give-aways that a porcupine had worked the tree; porcupines are wasteful eaters, consuming only a portion of a twig before discarding it for a new one, and their discards end up piling up under the feed tree.