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A friend WhatsApped these pictures to me.

He found the tracks on an upland moor, grazing land. As he was looking at them a hare ran out of the grass, so thinks some of the tracks may belong to him.

Can anyone confirm that, or see anything else in there.
 

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Most of the tracks are from a cloven hoof animal. Probably Roe deer. Not quite sure why there is a jumble of prints, unless there are young wild boar in that area! I think the prints are too fine for them.
 
Hi Gerald, thanks, I thought I could see deer tracks in the pictures. Roe Deer are the most likely round here.

Never heard of wild boar here!

So you can't see any hare tracks?
 
No, I can´t! In soft ground one would expect to see claw marks, from a hare track. I am willing to be corrected!!
 
FWIW, I’ve just had a Pipistrelle at 17.20pm hawking insects over the grdn. temp.7c, NE London 👍
 

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