Flavio Fastelli                        Photography



Various wild mammal tracks
  
  BUMBLE-BEE		  
Bumble-bees' nest

The Bumble-bees' nest is attached at a ceiling of an uninhabited homestead.
This is a very beautiful building realized with wood kneaded by their same saliva.

 

 
 
  
  BADGER (Meles meles)
Mark 		Adult badger mark.
Den This image was realized in the month of January among the woods of Valdera, in Tuscany.Dry leaves and blades of grass are dragged inside the den; this is a behaviour of the badger which is preparing a litter to whelp.
Excrement A badger particularity is to leave its excrement in little holes dug on the ground.
 

  PORCUPINE (Hystrix cristata)
Mark		 Porcupine's this mark is on a muddy ground.
Hole This hole on the ground is long about thirty centimetres, it was dug by a porcupine which fed itself of the Dock root
Excrement Porcupine excrement.
Den In autumn of every year, the porcupine cleans its den from the earth exceeding accumulating it in front of the entrance. 
The next litter shall take place here.


  FOX (Vulpes vulpes)
Mark		 Mark of fox on sandy ground.
Marks The fox's mark is behind that of a pheasant.
Excrement Fox excrement.
During a few periods of the year the animal supplements its diet with some fruit. Here a few kernels are noticed.


  BEECH-MARTEN (Martes foina)
Excrement		 In this excrement some little seeds are noticed.
The beech-marten is a carnivorous mustelide, but in a few periods of the year supplements its diet with some fruit.
Beech-marten tails These are end of the tail of two young beech-martens, with hair tufts scattered on the ground, in a ray of about fifty of centimetres.
  
  ROE (Capreolus capreolus)
Excrement		 Roe excrement.
This excrement, during the summer, contain several water and they're soft, to be remained melted between them and take the form of a pine-cone.
Marks Slow walk roe marks marks.
Over (in the photo), clogs of the front limb are divaricate.
Below (in the photo), clogs of the rear limb are closed.

  WILD BOAR (Sus scrofa)
Puddle		 In this puddle wild boars are used to taking mud baths.
Marks This is a fully-grown wild boar mark.In this photo one notices that the spurs stick out behind and on sides of the plantar bearings.The clog of the hind leg completely covers the front one almost; this means that the animal was walking.
Marks This mark is of the hind leg and clog tips are very much depths.Normally this type of mark is when the male tries the coupling with the female.


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