Scat and Tracks

For some time now, I've been keeping a rainy-day file of photos and stories that aren't necessarily as time sensitive as, say, mating Sonoran Desert Toads. For today's post, I'm reaching into that file to share a scat story and an update to a post about tracks.

Photos (and shoe) by Wayne Klement, March 2015

See page 16 of your copy of A Naturalist's Guide to Sabino Canyon. Hair - check; black color - check. Carnivore. Segmented - check, relatively large - check, lots - check. Looks like Mountain Lion scat.

And an update on the Talkin' Tracks post from January 2015. Jim Chumpley sent in this answer (I've put his answer on the post itself as well):

Those are skunk tracks, either striped or hooded. Raccoon would be much larger. Ringtail more round and the claw marks wouldn't be so far out in front of the track.

Now you know!