An inquisitive old fart with a camera
At one of the more remote points of our dog walk, I started noticing a textured patch that gave no clue what caused it, or could have caused it. And never seemed to have had anything walk through it.
Since it seemed to occur every day, untouched, I put a footprint in the middle of it as an experiment.
And the next day find the pattern again, with no sign of my footprint from 24 hours before.
So what’s going on here?
We often see fascinating tracks in the sand – lizards, beetles, birds – but this track was unlike any we’d seen before. And, luckily, we didn’t have to guess what made it (note how it almost gets blown off track by the wind at 0:23).
…and one strand of grass.
We’re getting to that time of year when we wonder what things must look like at night, given all the tracks we see in daylight with no evidence of what caused them. Generally, lizard rails cross the sandy trails as directly as possible, from one side to the other. Lately, though, a few seem to have changed their minds. This was an extraordinarily long “exposed” track.
We actually haven’t seen any good-sized lizards in quite a while.