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I caught this 6 week old fox with his tongue still out after he licked his tail during a grooming session.
Jerry Acton
Bombay Hook NWR, Smyrna, DE -- KiloKilo and I spent a few hours on Friday but the conditions were less than ideal: The combination of astronomical high tides in Delaware Bay plus the continued high river flow from last weeks storms left little shallow water/mud flats. In addition, about 1/2 of the refuge was closed for deer hunting season.
Series of six. Spotted the black tips of this fox's ears as it hid behind some undergrowth. Eventually it moved off across the field and then stopped side on for a wonderful pose, then on again until it finally settled down facing me across the field. Not sure whether it saw me (in full camouflage gear) or just sensed me.
Red foxes have overtaken grey wolves as the most widespread canines in the wild. Distributed throughout the northern hemisphere, red foxes are highly adaptable and occupy territories in deserts and tundra as well as urban areas. They live in family groups in dens and eat most things including small mammals, fruit, carrion and the contents of dustbins
I'm delaying much needed deck work (note paint......but since I just moved in last summer, I haven't yet gotten to this!) "Red foxes may leave bones and other objects around the den as toys for their young..." (kits):http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/wildlife/directory_show.cfm?species=redfox
Soooo----yuk!! but it meant the kits had returned!!!