What are these tracks?

[u/ParzivalsQuest]

We have a neighborhood cat so I suspect it’s him, but it was right up against our sliding door in our very secluded yard

[u/SecretlyNuthatches]

Small bird. Lots of small, ground-foraging birds (like many sparrows) hop instead of walk. They make these little two-foot marks and because they aren't hopping very high they have these drag marks as well.

A cat tends to leave tracks that look like a one-legged animal hopped through the yard. They bring their feet in as they walk so they tend to not make an alternating trackway at all.

[u/ParzivalsQuest → u/SecretlyNuthatches]

Makes total sense!! Thanks so much. Not knowing would have bothered me :)