Fox on the run

[wraithfodder]

Lookee what showed up under the bird feeder last week!

The fox was not eating birds, but food we tossed out for the crows. I've seen it once or twice before, usually the backside of it running away as it saw the curtains moved, but this time I was able to get photos. Hmm, must wash windows....

Comments

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

Fantastic Mr Fox!! So pretty...

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

MIght be a Mrs. Fox, too ;) couldn't tell from the distance.

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

I knew someone who had a pet fox when I was a kid....

[oxbastetxo.livejournal.com]

I think that's a female fox. ;-) They're not as brightly colored as the males. Very pretty :-)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

This one looks like it's shedding the winter coat too. Hopefully I'll see her/him again.

[libra-traveller.livejournal.com]

Nice pictures! You have lots of animals coming into your yard don't you.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Probably more that we never see. I mean, we never saw the deer get killed, so lots take place while we watch tv ;)

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

That's awesome, he looks so cool!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

:)

[squonk79.livejournal.com]

GReat pics!! You do seem to attract the wildlife! :D

The foxes here in London are getting bolder, we see them trotting about all the time. It used to be only after dark, now it's during the day too. In fact there's one i see every morning as i walk to work, just walks right on past without a second glance. And we had a young one curled up outside our fornt door. Which would be fine cept we live on the fourth floor!!

I'm really intrigued about the ones we see in the play area - i swear they're on the swings as soon as no-one's about...

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Oh heck, the coyotes are getting quite bold here too. Apparnetly somewhere - saw it on the news - a coyote tried to make off with a toddler. But foxes are neat.

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

Sadly Foxes are pest (non native) in Australia and so I have this urge to get muh huntin rifle ouwt and.... And I am a bushie (country raised) so I grew up driving past fox skins hanging from a fence.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Eeek!

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

Sowwy, I was a bit blase about it wasn't I.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

well, I suppose if dingos suddenly popped in the backyard, I'd feel the same way!;)

[abracah.livejournal.com]

Nice pics. I thought I would see a bigger variety of animals when we moved into "farm country" but sadly I usually only "squooshed" ones on the road, mostly skunks.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I see most animals squashed on the road, too, alas.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Gee, if I've been feeding it and not the crows, then, yup!

[aelfgyfu_mead]

That's amazing!

We get a lot of squirrels....

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Oh we have lots of those!

[leesa_perrie]

Lovely - we have foxes that use our garden as a route to other places - but they only ever come at night (and we only know because of the occasional quick glimpse of a fox heading up or down our driveway!). You're so lucky to be able to photo your foxy visitor.

Btw, is the zombie bambi all gone now?

EDIT - Chose the wrong icon!!!! It was meant to be the blackbird taking a bath in my garden...ah, that's better!!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Yes, zombie bambi is now in the woodpile. I should put my writeup with photos and videos up...

[negolith2.livejournal.com]

Might be a cross-fox (part red, part silver). If the coat stays that way over the summer, I'd bet on it.

My parents used to have a silver fox that would come up to the porch - gorgeous animal. It would stay about 10 feet to them, and liked to be talked to. It would squint and knead its paws just like a cat. They suspect it may have been someone's pet that was just turned loose. Disappeared one day - they figure someone shot it.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Silver fox? Cool! Never seen one of those...

[negolith2.livejournal.com]

Kind of a scrawny one:

http://www.sfcelticmusic.com/js/PHOTOGAL/Amwildlife/redfox1.jpg

=^.^=

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, so pretty!!

[celestial-diary.livejournal.com]

How cute!! It's nice to know that it wasn't feasting on the birds that visit the bird feeder you have. Then again, only the fox would know :S

I didn't know there were actually wild foxes roaming surburban dwellings.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Yup, foxes, coyotes! We had one bear in the county but someone hit it with a car. Sigh :(