Tracking Intensive

I spent the weekend tracking with White Pine Programs in southern Maine. It was a great day of tracking. We followed an animal from the weasel family for several hundred yards slowly adding clues and ruling out species. We finally determined that it was a mink by the way it was sliding on the snow and heading from one water source to the next (Mink are alot like Otters in that their diet is made up of aquatic animals). We also tracked deer, porcupines and bobcats. We followed one porcupine trail all the way to its den where we found the grumpy, spikey animal trying to sleep. We even got a glimpse of a flying squirrel. Apparently if you find a standing dead tree with a hole fit for a flying squirrel you can tap on the tree and get the squirrel to poke its head out and sometimes glide away. We were lucky enough to see it poke its head out but we didn't get to see it fly.
Now I'm back at camp and back to work on my bow. Tonight Ricardo is taking me to see Michael McCarthy, the local blacksmith to work on projects and if I'm lucky, learn a thing or two about blacksmithing.
Connor