Barred Owl => pellet found near base of tree, several weeks old and well leached with small mammal bones exposed, pellet was 2.5 inches long by 1.5 inches wide

Eastern Cottontail - signs of activity from most recent winter, includes feeding (browse and debarking) and scat. Note that the evidence appears above ground due to debarking during winter when snow was about a foot deep.

Eastern Cottontail - scat (centre), about 3/8" wide

Eastern Cottontail - scat (centre), about 3/8" wide

Eastern Cottontail - browse and debarking

Eastern Cottontail - browse, shows typical 45 degree cut

Eastern Cottontail - browse area under protection of conifer trees and near den located in log pile beyond trees

Eastern Cottontail - den located in man-made wood pile

Woodchuck - network of den entrances and mounds

Woodchuck - one of several plunge holes for quick escape, about 6" diameter

Woodchuck - close-up of plunge hole den entrance

Woodchuck - dark green scat near plunge hole

Woodchuck - scat

Woodchuck - main entrance and surrounding dirt mound, 8" wide by 7" high

Woodchuck - scat

Red Squirrel - middens, evidence of feeding on spruce cones

Red Squirrel - middens, evidence of feeding on spruce cones. Seeds were consumed and remainder of cone (core and brackets) were discarded.

Red Squirrel - cache of spruce cones for later feeding

Red Squirrel - cache of spruce cones for later feeding

Red Squirrel - den entrances at base of spruce tree, some middens also present

Red Squirrel - den entrance, 2" wide

Red Squirrel - den entrance, 2" wide

Red Squirrel - cache of spruce cones for later feeding, and den entrances to right of cache

Red Squirrel - cache of spruce cones for later feeding

Red Squirrel - den entrance, 2" wide