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Open areas like these are great for spotting animal tracks, and fresh snowfall makes it much easier to see what lives and travels throughout the landscape in the winter than in the summer.
Moose will leave behind some of the biggest tracks. In shallow snow, you might be able to see the two pads of their hoofs clearly. They’re large animals, so having big feet helps to spread their weight out and stop them sinking so far in snow. In deep snow, their prints can look a bit like large circular holes. Their front legs will compress the fluffy snow, and to save energy, they will then step with their long back legs in the same holes as they move forward. In fact, if a group of moose are travelling together will sometimes step in the footprints of the leading animal, so it can be hard to tell if you’re seeing the prints of one moose, or of five!
Image: Ive Van Krunkelsven
