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Algonquin Winter Tracking Algonquin Winter Tracking 2012 | 
    
      | Monday (Day 3) | 
    
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					|  | This day began with a short 
					visit to the end of the Bluff Lake portage. |  | 
    
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					|  | Back up the Opeongo Road (yes 
					it's one of my favorite places!). I found these tracks of 
					an indecisive otter on the frozen surface of a creek. It had 
					run towards the right, then abruptly turned around. |  | 
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					|  | On this spectacular sunny day 
					I climbed the high bluff overlooking Hermit Creek (where I 
					was exploring yesterday). In this photo the Hermit Creek 
					bog is visible below, on both sides of the snowy space. |  | 
    
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					|  | A view to the south. There 
					are pines up here, and a nice open area to eat lunch, 
					assuming it's a nice sunny day with little or no wind, like 
					today! |  | 
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					|  | An interesting pattern made by 
					the feet of a small bird as it foraged for food on a 
					snowbank. |  | 
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					|  | If you are a track 
					photographer, this is one to die for. It features the wing 
					prints (both wings) and tail feather fan of a raven as it 
					landed. |  | 
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					|  | Otters aren't the only animals 
					that like to slide. Mink will do it too. Here is the trail 
					of a mink that slid down an embankment in the forest, then 
					ran off towards the left. |  | 
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