Here are a few images from yesterday morning’s walk after the snow stopped falling. Maine has many secluded lanes that are long driveways or otherwise private roads that serve multiple driveways for houses in the woods.
Those that serve houses that are occupied during the winter usually are plowed, but there always is enough snow on the lane to record the passing of furry, feathered, or booted travelers.
Judging by that tracked history, our deer, bobcats, turkeys, and other animals that are always on the move usually prefer to take a plowed lane rather than crunchy snow, if the lane is secluded and can take them near where they want to go.
The same apparently is true for paths in the woods that have been cleared for human walking, even though not plowed.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on February 5, 2022.)