It is just after seven on an October morning and you are leaning on a field gate at the bottom of a valley. Cattle have poached the gateway into soft, dark mud. At first it is just mud. Then the sun clears the ridge behind you, its light skims across the ground, and the mud fills with shapes: the neat oval of a fox that came through in the night,…
In this lesson
Where the ground keeps a record
Light: why the low sun matters
The search image
Reading a single print
Fox and dog
Cats: domestic, wildcat and big cats
Badger
Otter and mink
Stoat, weasel and pine marten
Small mammals, hedgehogs and moles
Common mistakes
Check yourself
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