Black Vixen with Cinnamon Kit
Here's a few more red fox images. Unlike grey fox, red fox, regardless of their color pattern, all have a white tip to their tail. The kits shown in these images had just been or were being weaned. When I first arrived, they were nursing and playing with game brought in by their parents. Within a week, nursing became less frequent, and the kits had begun to eat meat. Rabbit was their usual food, but I saw them eating deer and rodents as well. Several times I saw adult deer chasing fox, presumably away from where the fawn was in hiding. On the other hand, fox kits sometimes fall victim to bald eagle, which if not after the kit, will readily steal its meal. Wolves, bobcat, coyote, and bear could all take a fox if they could catch it. Life in the wild. (One more fox post after this one then on to eagles.) Take care, Mike.
Black Vixen with Cinnamon Kit
Here's a few more red fox images. Unlike grey fox, red fox, regardless of their color pattern, all have a white tip to their tail. The kits shown in these images had just been or were being weaned. When I first arrived, they were nursing and playing with game brought in by their parents. Within a week, nursing became less frequent, and the kits had begun to eat meat. Rabbit was their usual food, but I saw them eating deer and rodents as well. Several times I saw adult deer chasing fox, presumably away from where the fawn was in hiding. On the other hand, fox kits sometimes fall victim to bald eagle, which if not after the kit, will readily steal its meal. Wolves, bobcat, coyote, and bear could all take a fox if they could catch it. Life in the wild. (One more fox post after this one then on to eagles.) Take care, Mike.