It’s finally here! We’ve received the first 30 printed copies of The Tracker Mentoring Manual for Course 1 – Introduction to Tracking in Southern Africa from our publishers in Cape Town. Of course, as with most publications, we always find little errors to fix, but overall we are pretty pleased. It’s a little different from …
This photo was taken near Siren, Wisconsin, at our annual Deer Trailing Workshop and CyberTracker Trailing Evaluation with North Winds Wilderness School and the Minnesota Tracking Project. Jonathan Poppele (Tracker 2) and Blake Samuele Southard (Tracker 2) were present, and refrained from answering, but contributed with their great senses of humour. Annie Du-Pre Reynolds (Tracker …
White-tailed deer tracks in leaf litter, Wisconsin, USA Read More »
Mammal tracks always seem to attract more interest than others, perhaps because that’s what we typically think about tracking, when we think about tracking… In our #trackertuesdays #weeklytrackingchallenge we had three answers from three different countries for this one: Ross Marcel Gariepy (SA) – Zebra, odd toed ungulate or hoofed animal. Mike Watling (USA) – …
Zebra (zeh-brah, not zee-brah) tracks, South Africa Read More »
The veld here in South Africa is still recovering from many years of drought. As a result, the animals are becoming more abundant. More and more, we are seeing these dry, grassy nests, and they aren’t always in rocks. Sometimes, they are in hollows in dead (or still living) trees. We identify them by the …
Mike Watling (foxtracker805) sent this photo from the Channel Islands National Park, where he volunteers as a naturalist. He says, “The bird track is a spotted towhee. They will hang out in the bushes near my campsite (on Santa Rosa Island) and are frequently on the ground under the picnic table. For the spotted towhee, and birds …
Here’s some newly documented invertebrate tracks to share with you all in our Tracker Mentoring community! This odd trail belongs to a beetle larva. It is a “cutworm,” a larva of the Tenebrionidae, as far as we can tell. These are seen from time to time in different regions, and this particular one is from …
Here are some newly documented bird tracks to share with you all in our Tracker Mentoring community. The Burchell’s sandgrouse is a desert dwelling bird, whose tracks we recently encountered in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. These dry country birds are beautifully camouflaged, and you could walk by them unnoticed, unless they fly up! Their …
Burchell’s Sandgrouse Tracks – Okavango Delta, Botswana Read More »
Here are some newly documented invertebrate tracks to share with you all in our Tracker Mentoring community. A good friend and fellow tracker in South Africa, Rudi Hulshof, contacted us recently with a series of fascinating pictures which he took in the Thornybush near Hoedspruit. A dash-dash-dash type of line, running through dry sand. We …
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Introducing Tracker Mentoring! (And, introducing the tracks of the Crested Barbet!) Read More »