[Eye of Unk]

About two weeks ago I went to work here in rural Alaska and in the winter we shut down our concrete batch plant but we had a fire and I was doing some wee early morning work, so its like 3am and we just had a lite dusting of snow maybe 2" and it was pristine, no other tracks or tire marks or anything and I saw the weirdest darn tracks in all of my life and really shook me and got my imagination into overdrive big time. The best way to describe them would be a very large duck print like something from Howard the Duck, they were at least a foot long and appeared of a bi-pedal step with the prints only slightly ahead of each other, not quite a hop where the prints are equal but not from a four footed creature. Whatever it was it walked on two legs, was probably no more than three feet tall and was by the depth not more than 30 pounds maybe lighter. The image here is of actual duck prints in snow, the ones I saw were at least a foot long, same general shape but were not angled in like a duck but parallel like a man walking.

[1000 silverlings]

Could they have been beaver tracks?

[1000 silverlings]

the hind foot of the beaver will often cover the front ones, making the footprints appear larger and bi-pedal. Let us know if you see it! There should be some tail drag though

[green pastures]

They look like wild turkey tracks (the real wild turkeys with feathers, not the kind in a bottle), however I’ve never seen them be as long as 12 inches.

We’ve got about 20 or 30 of ‘em around here and they leave the -> mark all over the place. I’m guessing the length of the wild turkey tracks around here are about 5-6 inches.

So, my best guesses are:

a) you have gigantic turkeys
b) you have raptors
c) you have a bear masquerading as a gigantic turkey