Was near Raven’s Rock there few weeks ago while it was snowing and found these prints! Been trying to find who they’re from. Help anyone?

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  4. Badgers have 4 main claws and a thumb so definitely not, the shapes and drag marks show its a bird, most likely a goose or a pheasant, if you had taken the picture directly above the print I could tell you exactly what it is. There’s drag marks in the snow which is the rear tail feathers brushing along the top of snow

  8. Beast tracks.

    It has claws as big as cups. It has four ears, two for listening and two are sort of back-up ears. Some might be on the inside of its head. It has a retractable leg so it can leap up at you better”, and it has magnets on its tail, so if you’re made out of metal, it can attach itself to you, and it lights up at night and it has a tremendous fear of stamps and it’s yawn sounds like Liam Neeson chasing a load of hens around inside a barrel and it has no mouth, but instead has four arses

  10. I guess the trident shaped prints are a bird of prey (e.g. a Buzzard), and the other prints are its hoped for lunch.

    Although they kinda look like a deer’s I’m guessing it’s a bunny. The trails between the trident prints being the knuckles of its talons scraping the snow (during take off).

  16. Those look like turkey tracks, but I don’t think there are wild turkeys in Ireland so no fucking clue.

  17. From
    https://www.wildernesscollege.com/bird-tracks.html

    ‘Anisodactyl tracks
    These “classic bird tracks” are made by birds with feet that are anisodactyl, which is defined by a foot in which 3 toes are pointed forward and 1 is pointed backward.  Birds that have feet designed in this way include practically all songbirds, herons and egrets, eagles, hawks, falcons, vultures, doves, and moorhens. ‘

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