Pretty sure those aren’t rabbit tracks. I think this was a bird shuffling through the snow, and then it made wing impressions when it took off. If it was an eagle, or something, that got a rabbit, there would be more disturbed snow.
DEFINITELY not rabbit tracks. The tracks wouldn’t be linked since rabbits hop not walk and the tracks of the fore and hind legs are quite distinctive. This is what rabbit tracks in snow look like
No bunnies were harmed in the making of above post
I’m reblogging just for the absolutely beautiful imprint of feathers
And also: definitely a takeoff of a bird. The distal primary feathers (toward the tip of the wing) tend to separate, so the gap between feathers would be wider than more proximal feathers. In the picture, the feathers facing the undistrubed snow are further apart, which means the bird is facing forward when the wing imprinted in the snow.
In this photo, the bird’s wing acts as a diffraction grating—a surface structure with a repeating pattern of ridges or slits. The structure causes the incoming light rays to spread out, bend and split into spectral colors, producing this shimmering rainbow effect. By
Victor Tyakht
“A sooty tern chick stands forlornly on the beach, waiting for its parents to return from their daily hunting trip at sea.” (Life magazine, early 1950s)
