4/24/2006: Rabbit tracks end in owl wingprints

[ndetroit]

Originally Posted by xant

There's also the possibility, although this is just speculation, that the owl briefly picked up something too heavy for it to carry *somewhere else*, then dropped down and let it go again right there. In that case, the trail of prints on the left is departing, not arriving.

Sure, but I doubt we'd see the wingprints then at that point, given that the owl (or whatever) likely would have just dropped the object from whatever distance in the air it was... I don't think it would have taken the time to land and gently place it's prey on the ground.