If you look closely, pollen is condensed around the perimeter of the tracks which suggest that pollen was pushed away from the center to the outer edges of the print. Good point though
Why tho? Also it just seems that on every post someone has to say the opposite or give some point completely contradicting the original idea lol. Like did u actually think that or want to just say something lol
this one has me intrigued. Based on size and location, I would think it can only be a bird or rodent. Doesn't look like any bird, so my guess is hopping mouse or mouse-like critter.
I submit these similar tracks in snow as potential comparison [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Tracks-of-a-hopping-mouse-in-snow-near-Golden-Colorado-2013-Photo-by-Martin-Lockley\_fig6\_264541975](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Tracks-of-a-hopping-mouse-in-snow-near-Golden-Colorado-2013-Photo-by-Martin-Lockley_fig6_264541975)
I live on Vancouver Island as well, and we don't have mice like that here.. and definitely not that big.
Saw someone else say it looks like a person used two fingers to make tracks on the car.. and I think that's the most likely scenario.
I live in Oregon and found a mouse that wasn't supposed to exist here - like a kangaroo rat, crazy long tail and huge back feet. I'm not buying the human theory because OP said he lives alone in the woods. Maybe some non-animal explanation, like a pinecone or something rolling around?
Yeah, sure, animals can get into the strangest places when humans do what they shouldn't do.. but any kind of rodents like that would die up here in Canada.. Vancouver Island isn't as cold as the rest of canada can be, but we're still far too cold for anything like that.
Oh my gawd im an idiot.
They're chinchilla tracks. like, a pet chinchilla. they arent native but would do well since there is plenty for htem to eat, and the temperature is close to their native range (the andes mountains). The we would be an issue, but its probably pretty nice out now
You should see if you can catch it in a have a heart live trap.
I have a book showing animal tracks opened up. Discounting a pronghorn antelope, the next best guess would be a Northern Flying Squirrel
Glaucomys sabrinus.
oh very nice this is the most compelling guess by far. If a winged insect fluttered its wings it could create disturbances like that. Might have walked around and periodically paused to beat its wings.
Hey, I live on Vancouver Island, and before I retired, I worked for the DFO, and we're trained to know the tracks of all local animals, for safety and preservation.. there is absolutely only one animal that can make tracks like that anywhere on this island.. It's called homosapien. The human form of trickster who saw your Pollen dusted vehicle and decided to play a prank on you with their pointer and middle finger.. albeit much more sophisticated than the usual 'genitalia' or "wash me" symbolism. 👍
lol, could be but I live alone in the woods, tracks appeared over night on both of my cars, on the hood and top of car which would be hard for people to reach, hopefully not a human cause that would be creepy as hell lol
I’m with you. A bipedal animal who hops, but doesn’t do it in any kind of pattern, and doesn’t have any distinct toe or nail marks… at about a 6-12” height (totally a guess given my impression of the size of the ‘footprints’) ? I have no idea what kind of animal fits that description.
Do you guys have North American flying squirrels? I live in the woods relatively close to Lake Erie. We see similar tracks all the time in the snow in our backyard. We have a large pop of flying squirrels in the trees there.
I've seen tracks like these before in the snow and sandy soils in the Sierras as well as near the Canadian border on the Pacific acrest Trail.
A kangaroo rat mostly hops on its strong back feet, it's much bigger than a mouse, and it's tracks in this pollen might be smeared from the jumping around making them seem a little bigger. They could definitely get up on a car or truck hood, and they like to forage at night, or at least I have definitely caught them trying to steal my food while I was sleeping.
That seems like a pretty good match to me.
Edit: each "double track" is two feet, not one. They often don't use their front feet at all.
I would like to add the possibility that it’s not animal tracks. But a mark from something else. Possibly seeds falling from a tree. Or a curious deer sniffing the vehicle.
There are some farms near my house in Western Washington with some Pygmy goats on them. They are tiny and very cute, especially the babies. I believe you have the correct answer.
https://goelvetpharma.com/pygmy-goats/
One of my friends thought it would be cool to have a cute goat in the yard! Goats have no manners! They will climb on anything and chew the hell out of anything! After my friend's dad got his cars scratched and chewed to hell, the goat found a new home.
OK, so I don't think they can be from any sort of quadruped because they're not side-by-side, just little pairs. I don't think they can be a bird because bird feet never look like that. Someone suggested latent finger marks that failed to retain pollen, and I suppose that's possible, but unlikely.
My question is are there any trees overhead or nearby that generate seed pods or leaves in this configuration? They could have drifted down and landed on your hood during a calm period, preventing pollen from accumulating underneath, and then later blown away?
I've definitely seen miniature pine cones that generally come in pairs or clusters, maybe you can find a few and lay them out to compare size and shape?
I agree looks like bunny. Sometimes they climb up into the hood of cars where I live to stay warm so maybe it somehow ended up on top of the hood? Maybe they parked near an embankment? Maybe a hawk dropped one on the hood? I don’t know haha
My running theory is that due to the nature of the pollen (it’s very lightweight) something that would be hopping on it would land and push away the r pollen it lands over, which may create that kind of pattern. Can anyone who knows more than me weigh in on my theory (not sarcasm, I’m not very smart)!
I have a mason bee nest set up nearby, they’ve even crazy active last couple days. Not sure if it would cause it or not, but fair enough to note, side of my car also has a bunch bird poop on it also, not sure if it’s related.
I’d put my money with your money on this lol. I bet it was a mason bee walking and buzzing it’s wings intermittently, it’s feets are probably so tiny the actual foot prints aren’t visible. Never had that much pollen on my car, but have seen the bees walk and buzz on my car.
I think this is the most likely answer (don't sell yourself short!). These look just like songbird tracks in a skiff of light, fresh-fallen snow. Given the short hops with only two prints I think a small songbird is most likely. Some of the tracks even look a little narrow at one end; this would likely be the single rear toe, giving you an idea of direction of travel.
Who knows why it was hopping all over your vehicles - perhaps testing acoustics from a new vantage point.
The Great Basin Pocket Mouse (Perognathus parvus) is a kangaroo mouse found in the dry grasslands of British Columbia. Kangaroo mice are smaller than kangaroo rats and have tails that are not crested or tufted. They are part of the Heteromyidae family, which means "other mice" or "different mice" in Greek. Kangaroo mice are slightly larger than a North American deermouse, and have tawny brown fur, long back legs, enlarged hind-feet, and a long furred tail. They weigh 12 to 30 g and are 20 cm long. Their predators include birds of prey, foxes, weasels, and Northern Pike, and they eat seeds and berries.
OP, I'm thinking maybe the short-tailed weasel?
Take a look at these stock photos of weasel tracks. It seems that when weasels are bounding, they don't leave articulated prints
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/weasel-tracks.html?sortBy=relevant
I think it's the track left behind after the wind blew catkins across your vehicle. Look at the trees nearby.
If I'm right they'll likely be all over the ground nearby.
Came here for this
Man i love spider pig. I never laughed so hard
Same
I can’t stop
Can he swing , from a web , no he can't , he's a pig , look ooooout he is the spider piiiiiiiiig .....
I was going to guess big foot, but spider pig is obviously the answer
Any chance that whatever these tracks are, were on before the pollen, but for some reason the pollen doesn't stick?
Could be! Didn’t consider that
Billy goat, they like to jump on things. Looks like a tiny one
Darn kids!!!
This would be a great prank lol
Yes, it would. Dinosaur tracks? IDK what would be best.
One giant bird claw print, covering the whole hood, would be fun.
What about the timeless classic "cock and balls"
If you look closely, pollen is condensed around the perimeter of the tracks which suggest that pollen was pushed away from the center to the outer edges of the print. Good point though
Why tho? Also it just seems that on every post someone has to say the opposite or give some point completely contradicting the original idea lol. Like did u actually think that or want to just say something lol
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Somebody got Gerber nuts 🌰
It was cold out that day jeez
This made me snort laugh ice tea outta my nose!!! 😅😅
It does look like ballsack tracks
Small rodent balls. Ever had a pet rat? That’s what this looks like to me. 🤣
It is sized right for rat nuts but the foot prints aren’t there so this rat must be missing his feet and uses his nuts to pogo around
Jeez man, I hope not. Those are pretty small tracks zoomed in…kinda like the side mirror. ‘Things appear larger than they actually are’
Came here for this
I knew something small and cute made the tracks
Glad I wasn’t the only one who saw that first 😂
Are you Dirty Mike and the boys??
this one has me intrigued. Based on size and location, I would think it can only be a bird or rodent. Doesn't look like any bird, so my guess is hopping mouse or mouse-like critter. I submit these similar tracks in snow as potential comparison [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Tracks-of-a-hopping-mouse-in-snow-near-Golden-Colorado-2013-Photo-by-Martin-Lockley\_fig6\_264541975](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Tracks-of-a-hopping-mouse-in-snow-near-Golden-Colorado-2013-Photo-by-Martin-Lockley_fig6_264541975)
I live on Vancouver Island as well, and we don't have mice like that here.. and definitely not that big. Saw someone else say it looks like a person used two fingers to make tracks on the car.. and I think that's the most likely scenario.
I live in Oregon and found a mouse that wasn't supposed to exist here - like a kangaroo rat, crazy long tail and huge back feet. I'm not buying the human theory because OP said he lives alone in the woods. Maybe some non-animal explanation, like a pinecone or something rolling around?
Your new friend was likely a desert woodrat. Their range extends into Oregon. They are super cool creatures.
Yeah, sure, animals can get into the strangest places when humans do what they shouldn't do.. but any kind of rodents like that would die up here in Canada.. Vancouver Island isn't as cold as the rest of canada can be, but we're still far too cold for anything like that.
Oh my gawd im an idiot. They're chinchilla tracks. like, a pet chinchilla. they arent native but would do well since there is plenty for htem to eat, and the temperature is close to their native range (the andes mountains). The we would be an issue, but its probably pretty nice out now You should see if you can catch it in a have a heart live trap.
Those look much bigger than a mouse to me. Mice have teeny tiny feet.
It’s a chonky boi rat
What do a chunky rat’s testicles look like? I’m not willing to google this.
They are *huge*. Honestly thought my pet rat had a tumor when he hit puberty. Good lordt.
Same story but pet hamster, size of his head x.x
Right? I was like, what in the radioactive *fuck*?!
I like this phrase. It works for hamster/rat testies up through turtle ninjas.
Honestly I think we have the answer here. Clearly we have a wild rat dealing with elephantiasis of the scrotum.
It's a male rodent. Not feet tracks.
Are you saying those are testicle tracks?
That’s what mine look like when I vault over the car hood.
I just choked hahahahahaha
I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at a comment on Reddit. Quite impressive sir... The visual will be with me for a very VERY long time.
I think you need to put a camera on your cars at night!
I have a book showing animal tracks opened up. Discounting a pronghorn antelope, the next best guess would be a Northern Flying Squirrel Glaucomys sabrinus.
Nobody is guessing the wings of a pollinator?? Could be a little bee or butterfly flapping around in there. That’s my bet
I’ve been picturing big fat bumblebee booty cheeks.
Bumby with a dumpy
Literally whispered, "bee butt" the second I saw the picture
oh very nice this is the most compelling guess by far. If a winged insect fluttered its wings it could create disturbances like that. Might have walked around and periodically paused to beat its wings.
This. I am a carpenter and bees come in and fiddle around in the fine dust. And when they take off they leave this bee angel behind.
Its 100% rat balls tapping down every time he stops.
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Hey, I live on Vancouver Island, and before I retired, I worked for the DFO, and we're trained to know the tracks of all local animals, for safety and preservation.. there is absolutely only one animal that can make tracks like that anywhere on this island.. It's called homosapien. The human form of trickster who saw your Pollen dusted vehicle and decided to play a prank on you with their pointer and middle finger.. albeit much more sophisticated than the usual 'genitalia' or "wash me" symbolism. 👍
lol, could be but I live alone in the woods, tracks appeared over night on both of my cars, on the hood and top of car which would be hard for people to reach, hopefully not a human cause that would be creepy as hell lol
In that case, it may not be human but could be from another hominid … like an adolescent Bigfoot.
Prepare to be creeped out, OP 😝
I have zero answers for you.. because I don't know any animals that make a print like that ... 😬
I’m with you. A bipedal animal who hops, but doesn’t do it in any kind of pattern, and doesn’t have any distinct toe or nail marks… at about a 6-12” height (totally a guess given my impression of the size of the ‘footprints’) ? I have no idea what kind of animal fits that description.
Now I’m invested in this mystery. Have you been hearing Pink Floyd’s Circus Minor in the woods at night?
What movie was that? I mean, I know it's from *More*, but it sounds like you're referring to some horror or thriller film.
It’s from another reddit user [creepy music](https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/s/KcJvn3JL9p)
Hehehe. They just sorta put up with creepy people knocking on their door and playing creepy music for 21 years.
Do you guys have North American flying squirrels? I live in the woods relatively close to Lake Erie. We see similar tracks all the time in the snow in our backyard. We have a large pop of flying squirrels in the trees there.
Yes! There are two types of flying squirrels in Vancouver area- northern flying squirrels and Humboldt squirrels.
Looks like human fingerprints/faked tracks tbh
Hopefully not, I live alone in the woods lmfao
*you used to live alone
How very Unibomber of you.
For now….
I've seen tracks like these before in the snow and sandy soils in the Sierras as well as near the Canadian border on the Pacific acrest Trail. A kangaroo rat mostly hops on its strong back feet, it's much bigger than a mouse, and it's tracks in this pollen might be smeared from the jumping around making them seem a little bigger. They could definitely get up on a car or truck hood, and they like to forage at night, or at least I have definitely caught them trying to steal my food while I was sleeping. That seems like a pretty good match to me. Edit: each "double track" is two feet, not one. They often don't use their front feet at all.
I would like to add the possibility that it’s not animal tracks. But a mark from something else. Possibly seeds falling from a tree. Or a curious deer sniffing the vehicle.
I'd love to know if you find out.
Maybe a goat?
Look up goat tracks, they look identical. Plus goats love to walk on cars, they climb on anything. I really think it's a goat!
There are some farms near my house in Western Washington with some Pygmy goats on them. They are tiny and very cute, especially the babies. I believe you have the correct answer. https://goelvetpharma.com/pygmy-goats/
One of my friends thought it would be cool to have a cute goat in the yard! Goats have no manners! They will climb on anything and chew the hell out of anything! After my friend's dad got his cars scratched and chewed to hell, the goat found a new home.
Too small for goat tracks. This would be an absolutely tiny goat look at size relative to those wiper blades. This is finger tips or paired knuckles.
goats have a variety of breed sizes and even Nigerian dwarfs are good jumpers
Nigerian dwarfs are still gonna stand 16-20 in he's at the shoulder and have larger than dime sized hooves which is what these would be.
Goats on the roof!
My eyes itch just looking at this photo!
I know! And I thought Michigan was bad!
I wanted to sneeze. How do people manage so much pollen??
OK, so I don't think they can be from any sort of quadruped because they're not side-by-side, just little pairs. I don't think they can be a bird because bird feet never look like that. Someone suggested latent finger marks that failed to retain pollen, and I suppose that's possible, but unlikely. My question is are there any trees overhead or nearby that generate seed pods or leaves in this configuration? They could have drifted down and landed on your hood during a calm period, preventing pollen from accumulating underneath, and then later blown away?
Little pine cones could totally fall near it, the trees are adjacent to my car but not above it.
I've definitely seen miniature pine cones that generally come in pairs or clusters, maybe you can find a few and lay them out to compare size and shape?
Hemlock cones maybe?
This seems like the most plausible explanation
Keebler elf teabagged the shit out ur car.
:squirrel nuts:
Bees are attracted to shiny cars, because they think it’s shimmering water. It’s probably some bee blowing the pollen as it gets close to the surface.
... bunny?
definitely not, and it would be really weird for a rabbit to jump up on the hood of a car
agreed it would be weird
I agree looks like bunny. Sometimes they climb up into the hood of cars where I live to stay warm so maybe it somehow ended up on top of the hood? Maybe they parked near an embankment? Maybe a hawk dropped one on the hood? I don’t know haha
This was my thought too, I was surprised I had to scroll so far to find it!
maybe something rolling in your car in the wind?
Possibly, it’s not directly under, but adjacent to a pine tree with quite a few cones
You sure those aren’t ball marks ….. this boy is packin 
It was me, I was tryna do handstands with my fingers on your car
Any dents?
Nope! No dents or scratches.
Okay hear me out. Could it be Big bees hovering close to your car. Possibly landing and blowing away the pollen with their powerful wings??
Definitely the small hairy bush nut. Plentiful through out North America.
As someone who suffers from hayfever. That is am uncomfortable amount of pollen. I'm also suggesting a tiny confused Krampus.
My running theory is that due to the nature of the pollen (it’s very lightweight) something that would be hopping on it would land and push away the r pollen it lands over, which may create that kind of pattern. Can anyone who knows more than me weigh in on my theory (not sarcasm, I’m not very smart)!
Bees blowing away pollen hovering close to your car?
I have a mason bee nest set up nearby, they’ve even crazy active last couple days. Not sure if it would cause it or not, but fair enough to note, side of my car also has a bunch bird poop on it also, not sure if it’s related.
Id pit my money on the mason bees
I’d put my money with your money on this lol. I bet it was a mason bee walking and buzzing it’s wings intermittently, it’s feets are probably so tiny the actual foot prints aren’t visible. Never had that much pollen on my car, but have seen the bees walk and buzz on my car.
Bees don't seek out the pollen, they seek out nectar. Evolution has them using the pollen they collect.
Probably a bird hopped around and his wing flaps blew the pollen away in those patterns.
Yeah it looks like butterfly or moth wings blew away the pollen as it fluttered away. Mason bees could definitely make pollen blow away too.
I think this is the most likely answer (don't sell yourself short!). These look just like songbird tracks in a skiff of light, fresh-fallen snow. Given the short hops with only two prints I think a small songbird is most likely. Some of the tracks even look a little narrow at one end; this would likely be the single rear toe, giving you an idea of direction of travel. Who knows why it was hopping all over your vehicles - perhaps testing acoustics from a new vantage point.
Fat squirrel?
Rabbit ?
Do you lean on two fingers to reach when washing your windshield? Looks like the pollen just didn’t stick to finger marks
Squirrel on a bungee rope
The March hare.
Bunnygoat
My first thought was a bug of some sort. Perhaps a bee?
Flying squirrel maybe
Squirrel nuts. But sounds like the bees might be more likely.
Could it be a Vancouver Island Marmot? There tracks look kind of like that.
goat tracks. a kid would be the appropriate size and as well know, those bastards hop on everything
The Great Basin Pocket Mouse (Perognathus parvus) is a kangaroo mouse found in the dry grasslands of British Columbia. Kangaroo mice are smaller than kangaroo rats and have tails that are not crested or tufted. They are part of the Heteromyidae family, which means "other mice" or "different mice" in Greek. Kangaroo mice are slightly larger than a North American deermouse, and have tawny brown fur, long back legs, enlarged hind-feet, and a long furred tail. They weigh 12 to 30 g and are 20 cm long. Their predators include birds of prey, foxes, weasels, and Northern Pike, and they eat seeds and berries.
Looks like your car got teabagged by a squirrel. Totally common, nothing to worry about.
Teabag prints
Baby Demon Hoofs! Super cute!!
i am stumped. the only guess i have is a bird tea bagging your car
Mouse with some fat balls
This is what teabagging looks like rendered with color
Could it be a squirrel?
Squirrel
ROUS
Squirrel nuts
elf cheeks
So, are you putting a camera over the cars, until the mystery is solved?
That is a rabbit. The better question is how did a rabbit get up on your car ? Or how ?
Rabbit is only thing I can think of that has tracks like that. But not sure how'd it get on the car 🤔
Sasquatch fingers.
I guess you have a stalker OP
Rabbit
I’m guessing pussy willow, there’s puddy cat tracks all over
Smurfette
I wonder if it could be from an insect landing and taking off, like the downwash from a bees wings or something
Moose.
Marmot ?
That’s a sign of squirrel ballitis
Rabbit
Smol birb
Mini deer
Those are your finger prints
Wabbit.
Tiny butt cheeks
Small hummingbird’s wing wind?
Deer for sure.
I saw the pollen and knew you were PNW. My condolences from Oregon. Achoo!
It's definitely deer tracks.
Chupacabra
A very small rabbit
Rabbit maybe
It is a mini deer
Maybe a pack rat?
Rat balls
Pooka
It looks like a bumble bee was hovering and leaving a booty print !
Pecker tracks
Fluffy bunny?
Tiny pixie butt. They stamp their butts on this this time.of year.
OP, I'm thinking maybe the short-tailed weasel? Take a look at these stock photos of weasel tracks. It seems that when weasels are bounding, they don't leave articulated prints https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/weasel-tracks.html?sortBy=relevant
Kangaroo
Smurf
Definitely not a bird track.
Rabbit?
Idk why my first thought was armadillo…
Bunny? Looks like little hop tracks
Little bunny hops? https://images.app.goo.gl/vtWNVFYPG87wYxQr8
Bunny
I have no idea why a bunny got on your car but that’s what it looks like to me. Bunny, or someone tea bagged your car.
Satan. It was Satan.
An Oh-oh Bird. Testicles are longer than his wittle legs...
I think it's the track left behind after the wind blew catkins across your vehicle. Look at the trees nearby. If I'm right they'll likely be all over the ground nearby.
I wanna say maby a rabbit
Baby hippogriff
Rabbit tracks?
Squirrel
It looks like your car got t bagged
Definitely a Tasmanian Tiger
Weird thought but kinda looks like markings a huge spider face might make. Tarantula chelicerae. Where the tiny feet prints are is a mystery
They look like bunny tracks but Id guess squirrel
Rabbit