Critter acknowledgement
Ocuna recognizes the raccoon (Procyon lotor).
Several spots may be visited before the right one is finally found.
Would we remember then that it was he who first sang of spring, when the reality was yet a long way off?
The Cambridge Natural History
Mammalia, volume X. Frank E. Beddard, 1902.
Figure 213 depicts a raccoon (Procyon lotor) walking along a fallen branch.
Original illustration in the public domain. Image from Wikimedia Commons.
Quotations from Tenants of the Trees by Clarence Hawkes (1907), pages 62 and 40.