Animal tracking & Naturalist interpretation
East Cascades & Columbia River Watershed Tracking
SCAT club is a casual gathering place for track, sign, and naturalist interpretation in the Columbia River Gorge, and beyond.
Our goal is to share knowledge and make the mystery of the natural world more visible.
This Beaver has good taste in places to leave a scat
Likley a Great Horned Owl who mistook a stick for a snake!
Black Bear yearling
A Bald Eagle intimidates a Raven off a fresh Douglas Tree Squirrel stashed in the tree’s limbs
Weasel bounding
A Raven draging it's heels
Salmon trophic-cycle and beaver sign along a river bed.
Look Closely! A Cascade Torrent Salamander.
Mummified remains of a young American Badger washed ashore.
A Cicada emerges in a Oak Savannah
A well scavenged Black Tail Deer, likely taken by a cougar, and scavenged thoroughly within a day.
Some young Black Tailed Deer bucks, practice thier jousting
A Black Bear moves through the sand
The track left from a Rattlesnake hunting at a Kangaroo Rat nest hole just out of frame.
This mud caught these delicate Bushy Tailed Woodrat tracks.
A Gopher snake
Elk on the left, Mule Deer on the Right
Potential Sierra Red Fox scat found in the Alpine.
A handsome Bobcat scat.
Beautiful Oak leaf caught in the wind.
Earth Worm scat!
Sierra Red Fox
An Elk leg found at a Black Bear scavenge site.
A Larch Mountain Salamander. Endemic to SC WA
The skull of a Elk found at a Black Bear scavenge site.
An old but mighty Cougar scat
Coyote tracks
Close-up of a butterfly wing with iridescence reflections.
Black Bear claws
A muddy Bobcat walks over crusty snow.
Plucked Red Tail Hawk feathers likley a prey item for a Great Horned Owl. With a few sheered feathers from a ground dwelling scavenger.
A handsome Coyote scat.
A suspicious Yellow Bellied Marmot, takes a peak.
a 5 whirl almost microscopic terrestrial mulusk endemic to the Columbia Gorge.
A female Western Blue Bird enjoys the sliver of Oak habitat that stretches North and South along the Eastern Edge of the Cascades.
Grey Wolf
A Banana Slug freshly pooped out of it's anus (located just under the mantle near its face) ontop of some fresh Elk Scat.
an owl touches the ground twice with only one foot. likley during a swoop during the night.
The wide set hind feet of a squating Coyote
An Ochre Sea Star, The keystone species of our tidal shores
Elk scat with a little grub starting to reuse the nutrients.
A mighty Shrew
Giant Pacific Salamander
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