There were deer tracks, and near a small pool I saw a bear track.
If these had been deer tracks, I'd have estimated that a small herd passed by less than twenty minutes before.
"Don't see deer tracks, but that's because the soil's so dry now," he said.
This is the most peculiar thing about the deer tracks: that among them are no paw prints from the dogs.
They had found a few deer tracks, none particularly fresh.
That deer track had been bad enough to slide down - going up it would be next to impossible.
I have been known to leave fresh deer tracks in order to gather oyster mushrooms.
I found one set of deer tracks made just before the snow had stopped falling the previous evening.
There were deer tracks, but I saw no human tracks.
There were fresh deer tracks in the field.