It was snowing when I went to bed Friday night, and I was thrilled on Saturday morning by the glorious expanse of glistening white that the day before had been a garden of dried stalks and bare twigs. Granted, we only got three inches of snow, but I am like a 9-year-old about any amount of snowfall.
I started taking pictures from my back deck while I drank my first cup of coffee. After breakfast, I bundled up and started my trek around the yard and field. As I walked through the field, I noticed rows of deer tracks crisscrossing each other. I wasn’t surprised; we have a herd of about seven deer that spend much of their time in our neighborhood.
What did surprise me was that I didn’t see any other tracks, and I began thinking about the other mammals that live in the field and the woods. Where do they spend the frigid winter days and nights?
The National Park Service website and other sites told me that many animals brave the cold months in one of three ways. Some, including numerous bir...