Tracking animals through every sort of terrain has become a true passion of mine over the years. Photography has inspired me to not only know about the animals I am photographing, but also to understand how they move through the forest and how to activity locate them. The collection of images in my database of scats and tracks, and any other animal signs I come across, far exceed my portfolio of "pretty" photographs and the images of animals themselves.
My photography began with a set of coyote tracks I came across many years ago in New Brunswick, Canada, as a mineral prospector, and had the intuition to take a photo. Since that time I have had the opportunity to track all sorts of big game animals (and the smaller types) across the world, and for me, nothing compares to big cat tracking in South Africa where this photo was taken of a prowling African Leopard.
The joy of tracking comes from the honest respect for our natural environment and the yearning to know how other animals act and react inside of it. The gait of an animal tells the story of its movements to survival and educates a person, like myself, on the idea of focus, achieving goals and correct decision making.
Animal tracking is not for everyone in this day of age but years ago it was essential. My biggest fear today is that as the forest dissapears, so will the signs of the life that live within it........

Week 8 - Newfoundland

  26 Canada Goose
   4 Wood Duck
   7 American Black Duck
   1 Mallard
   2 Ring-necked Duck
   2 Red-breasted Merganser
   8 Common Loon
   8 Great Shearwater
  21 Northern Gannet
  17 Double-crested Cormorant
   3 Bald Eagle
   2 Spotted Sandpiper
   1 Greater Yellowlegs
  13 Willet
  10 Wilson's Snipe
   6 Ring-billed Gull
  78 Herring Gull
  26 Great Black-backed Gull
  26 Caspian Tern
   7 Common Tern
   3 Pomarine Jaeger
   5 Rock Pigeon
   1 Downy Woodpecker
   3 Hairy Woodpecker
  10 Northern Flicker
   3 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
   3 Least Flycatcher
   2 Red-eyed Vireo
  24 Gray Jay
   9 Blue Jay
   8 American Crow
   2 Common Raven
   2 Tree Swallow
   9 Black-capped Chickadee
  24 Boreal Chickadee
  

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