Antler Markings in the Snow?

[GregBickal]

Ok, this is twice that I have seen this now. What looks to be a snow angel made in the snow by a bucks antlers. Is that what it is?

 

[Liv4Rut]

I looks to me where and owl or hawk swooped down and picked something up. I think it is wing marks you are seeing. Wouldn't be the first time I was wrong though

 

[sethgade280]

I would agree.

 

[JNRBRONC]

Yup, wing marks, hawk/pheasant....

 

[AZHunter]

I agree with a raptor of some sort. Those look like the impressions of flight feather tips. Otherwise, a perfect impression of what looks like a short-tined symmetrical 20 pointer? Wouldn't that be cool!!

 

[sep0667]

I have seen a few of those as well, I always assumed pheasant or some sort of bird.

 

[teeroy]

its a bird

 

[DannyBoy]

I saw one this year and really kicked myself for not having a camera. It looked quite different than that and was surely a pheasant. You could see where the tail feather came down first and then the rest. It was about 8 feet long.

 

[sims8ball]

Bird, see it all the time pheasant hunting, well when we had birds.