Please help identify these tracks -Oops! PICs now attached

[Carrie Lynn]

I found these tracks in my backyard, near my chicken pen.
Could you please identify them?
Critters that frequent my neighborhood: rabbits, squirrels, possums and coons.
My guess is the young possum a saw in my shrubs a month earlier

Thanks in advance,
Carrie Lynn

 

[Hound]

You don't seem to have a photo link.

 

[TipsyDog]

I'd guess racoon.

 

[jenjscott]

racoon

http://www.gpnc.org/tracks.htm

 

[EMAW]

Looks like a coon to me.

 

[sourland]

Grouped in fours, spaced out as in hopping, dime to nickel sized? If so squirrel tracks. The back leg print of a coon is much larger and more elongated.

 

[Hound]

I don't think it's a raccoon either, they tend to look more like little monkey/kid hands.

 

[chicks4kids]

Coon tracks for sure in my opinion.

Sounds like you need to trap it before it downsizes your flock.

 

[CMV]

I believe those are squirrel tracks. There's nothing to indicate scale, but I am guessing squirrel.

 

[woodmort]

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My thoughts exactly--I have squirrels that beg at the window if I don't keep their feeder filled so see a lot of tracks. Without something to determine scale I'd say they look like what is all over our deck. Raccoon would be larger and more space between--squirrels move with kind of a loping gate so front and back feet come together.