What’s going on out on the land?
River Otter on the Eramosa River
On Wednesday December 17th, 2025, while out exploring the river ice with my students we came to a bend of the Eramosa River where I knew the ice was thickest. While out on the ice, I came across some interesting tracks. Coyote tracks double registering? Fisher? River Otter?
Here I detail how I came to the conclusion of River Otters.
Determining Direction of Travel on a Fisher Trail
“Which way them critters goin’?”
To this day it can be tricky to tell the direction of travel through deep snow.
For this exploration in determining the direction of travel I’ll use a snowed in Fisher trail we encountered during an Earth Tracks Tracking Apprenticeship outing at Bognor Marsh, near Meaford, Ontario as an example. It was a faint trail, mostly snowed in, but the impressions were visible at the right angles, as long as they hadn’t been blown away in the wind.