Not strictly related to canals I'm afraid, but we've just got back from a week in the Scottish Highlands and are still puzzling over this animal track we found.

We were exploring a mountainside above Loch Rannoch where there was still a lot of snow. No other human footprints but plenty of deer, hares/rabbits etc.

And this:


It was about the size of an adult hand, but we can't find any references to it anywhere. It has 3 distinctive toes and there were a lot of tracks criss-crossing the area.

This is not a wind up or hoax.

Perhaps a long legged bird of some kind?

Hmm. It would have to have been a very big bird, and unlikely to be walking around a very steep wooded mountainside.

So far we've asked loads of people and nobody can come up with any better suggestions than a Three Toed Sloth or dinosaur.

BTW the blob just in front of the toe prints wasn't part of it. I didn't notice it when I took the photo and the rest of the prints didn't have it.

Here's a Photoshop enhanced version to make it clearer.

How far apart were these tracks? That should give an indication of the size of the animal... I still reckon it's it's Rod Hull's Emu

Scottish Wildcat? Seen those around there. Last one I saw was when our train stopped in the middle of the moor, one was on a lineside fence. I threw it some meat out of a British Rail sandwich which it ignored!!! Sensible cat in 1982.

I keep putting 3 toed footprint into the search engine and this keeps coming up:-

Ornithopod Footprints - tridactly (three-toed) prints of broad, rather flabby type made by the bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs like Iguanodon ...

Doesn't look good for you all.....

I heard that whatever made those footprints was responsible for this???????




GB

I also read about this many time and many places . But till today I not recognize this footprint is whose ? Nowadays many searchers going on that but not a single conclusion come up on this .

Naomi Campbell ?

What made these tracks?

Driving with all that snow on the windscreen was sure to result in somebody spread across the bonnet...

... or was it Naomi Cambell trying out her car show pose?

There is actually the inprint of two people on the bonnet...

You lot must be too innocent!

No, just long-sighted !!