Unknown tracks

[mjbskwim]

I`m not an Ornithologist but have never heard of a Wild Turkey in my area outside a bottle.

No wild turkeys out side a bottle in Pierce Co

 

[jsparks747]

Hey, I got down to the bottom of the hill at the creek where I found them. Wasn`t able to get any really good photos (no new tracks, only the remains of what were there) but here`s one of the area itself:
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This is what was left of the partially-submerged track, it was mostly washed away and I`m not 100% sure how well it shows up in the photo itself so I tried to show the general shape with my impeccable MS Paint skills.
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A duck, turkey, and deer combined?

 

[etrain16]

I`m not an Ornithologist but have never heard of a Wild Turkey in my area outside a bottle.

See page 14 of the document below. Wild Turkeys are not common in Pierce County, but are found occasionally.

http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/prospects/2014/district11.pdf

We had a pair of wild turkeys show up in our yard down here in Oregon a few years ago, eating the birdseed we had in the yard. Dumbest pair of animals I've ever seen. One flew up on our roof and was stuck there for hours, apparently forgetting how to get down and making a bunch of noise talking to his buddy.

 

[kilimanjaro]

Ardea herodias, Great Blue Heron. You didn't state the dimensions, but should be about hand-sized for a mature bird.

The streamside location is another giveaway, they are riparian feeders.

 

[Fjordforder]

Ardea herodias, Great Blue Heron. You didn't state the dimensions, but should be about hand-sized for a mature bird.

The streamside location is another giveaway, they are riparian feeders.

I was just down there about 15 minutes ago, sadly no new tracks. I`ll look into the Great Blue Heron.

 

[mjbskwim]

I was just down there about 15 minutes ago, sadly no new tracks. I`ll look into the Great Blue Heron.

They are kinda shy,so if you are down there very much they'll fly off pretty fast.
Or it looks like it won't be back?

 

[Fjordforder]

They are kinda shy,so if you are down there very much they'll fly off pretty fast.
Or it looks like it won't be back?

Can`t say for sure, showed up after a storm, we had some pretty heavy winds last night so maybe it`s off to new lands?

 

[teb]

Deer.
Must be fairly heavy if the tracks were pushed deep. And your tracing looks like hooves to me.

 

[erudne]

I have a crow that leaves a track like that in the snow

 

[Capn Jack]

I'm for Blue Heron. We've got them here by the hundreds. I call them "Crap-a-Gallons" because they do....
Around salt water, they eat a lot of snails and when their system dissolves them, they squirt liquid concrete.
Woe unto those that let it set up on their boats, for they shall be known as "Scrapers."

 

[mjbskwim]

Deer.
Must be fairly heavy if the tracks were pushed deep. And your tracing looks like hooves to me.

Can I have a toke off that pipe?

 

[mjbskwim]

 

[mjbskwim]