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Originally Posted By SWIRE: @Kitties-with-Sigs now I'm dealing with this animal baby situation. Trying to find a shelter for them but everyone I contact is at capacity already. Do you need some new pets? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/680/raccoon_babies_JPG-2388068.jpg View Quote Haha! No. There are a lot of rescues around the state though. |
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Originally Posted By SWIRE: Found a shelter and those two raccoon babies are gone. However, I checked the wall and there is a 3rd one but he moved away before I could grab it. The only way to get it would be to rip out part of the great room wall which I really don't want to do. I was told it should come out of the wall when it gets hungry. View Quote What happened to mom? Was she dispatched? |
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: What happened to mom? Was she dispatched? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: Originally Posted By SWIRE: Found a shelter and those two raccoon babies are gone. However, I checked the wall and there is a 3rd one but he moved away before I could grab it. The only way to get it would be to rip out part of the great room wall which I really don't want to do. I was told it should come out of the wall when it gets hungry. What happened to mom? Was she dispatched? Yes. I caught 2 inside the breakfast room of the house. I didn't know she had babies though. Usually I'll hear a raccoon scurrying across the attic or in the walls but that hasn't happened in months. I was able to get the 3rd one out of the wall today and took it to the shelter so it could be reunited with its siblings. |
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Originally Posted By SWIRE: The lady that took them said she has over 30 babies now. That is a lot of raccoons to feed. View Quote Yes. The rescue people are trying to get more people to learn, so they can divide and conquer. They are worked to death in spring and summer and a lot of them burn out. I transport for a local rescue here, and they're trying to get me to do bats. Those don't take up as much space. I just don't have the energy to get my own stuff done at the moment, so can't take on something like that, even if I want to. |
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: Yes. The rescue people are trying to get more people to learn, so they can divide and conquer. They are worked to death in spring and summer and a lot of them burn out. I transport for a local rescue here, and they're trying to get me to do bats. Those don't take up as much space. I just don't have the energy to get my own stuff done at the moment, so can't take on something like that, even if I want to. View Quote Does the state offer grants, funds, or supplies to help these people? She said it is costing her $80 a day for all the food/formula she uses. I've considered becoming a rescue, I've got the room and the know how for most of it. I just don't have the time to get my own stuff done, just like you, plus I like to travel and see family. Growing up on a farm I learned early on that animals don't take vacations and still need to be cared for every day. |
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Originally Posted By SWIRE: Does the state offer grants, funds, or supplies to help these people? She said it is costing her $80 a day for all the food/formula she uses. I've considered becoming a rescue, I've got the room and the know how for most of it. I just don't have the time to get my own stuff done, just like you, plus I like to travel and see family. Growing up on a farm I learned early on that animals don't take vacations and still need to be cared for every day. View Quote The state puts on the classes to teach the rehabbers how to take care of the specific animals, and the resources available as far as discounted drugs, etc, but no, as far as I know, there is no money. Rescuers have to raise their own. Without a 501 c3 it's hard. And if you get that designation, then you have the paperwork for that. I've learned by observation that nobody does it alone. You need runners to pick up the animals (that's my role--it's all I can do right now. I drive to the animal, pick up the animal, and bring it back to the rehab, or I pick up from the rehabber, and take it to another rehabber (like the raptor rehab center in Louisville) since my local rehabber doesn't do birds. You also need to fundraise. Facebook is a really good way to do that, from what I can tell. Skills with posting help. |
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The transplant is hard on anybody.
Those bulbs look a lot like glads, but those won't normally overwinter. It's too cold here. Not sure what else you had in the garden, but if you tell me, I'll know which bulbs those are (probably.) |
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: The transplant is hard on anybody. Those bulbs look a lot like glads, but those won't normally overwinter. It's too cold here. View Quote They have over wintered at least once. At this point I can't even remember when I planted them much less what they were. Pretty sure it was a bag of bulbs from Costco, possibly 2 years ago now. I thought they were supposed to be some type of Iris. A bag I bought this year had some gladiolas in it. It was only later that I found out most don't over winter but there are some hardy gladiolas that will. One of the bulb websites I was looking at shows the hardy zone for where things can grow instead of where they will over winter. I had almost purchased from them when I found out another site that showed me most of what I was going to buy would need to be pulled out every fall. I'm trying to build low maintenance flowerbeds not ones that require more work. The main set of plants I still need to move are Iris. They just finished blooming so now I will move them. Then I can start working on digging out the old rock wall and starting to move that. |
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Originally Posted By SWIRE: Meet my new retaining wall project supervisor. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/680/fox_log_JPG-2396248.jpg It has nothing to do with the fact that I may place a hotdog on that log from time to time. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/680/fox_log2_JPG-2396254.jpg Always giving me the stink eye when I'm not working. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/680/fox_log3_JPG-2396255.jpg And motioning for me to get back to work because that wall isn't going to build itself. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/680/fox_log4_JPG-2396256.jpg View Quote Kitty! |
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Originally Posted By SWIRE: They have over wintered at least once. At this point I can't even remember when I planted them much less what they were. Pretty sure it was a bag of bulbs from Costco, possibly 2 years ago now. I thought they were supposed to be some type of Iris. A bag I bought this year had some gladiolas in it. It was only later that I found out most don't over winter but there are some hardy gladiolas that will. One of the bulb websites I was looking at shows the hardy zone for where things can grow instead of where they will over winter. I had almost purchased from them when I found out another site that showed me most of what I was going to buy would need to be pulled out every fall. I'm trying to build low maintenance flowerbeds not ones that require more work. The main set of plants I still need to move are Iris. They just finished blooming so now I will move them. Then I can start working on digging out the old rock wall and starting to move that. View Quote Don't bury the iris tubers. Just toss them on the ground and put a very light covering of mulch or something on them. Seriously if you just throw them down they will do fine. The worst thing you can do is cover them too deep. Rot is the enemy with any tuber. I tell people, "you're putting them too deep. Just toss them on the ground and they will be fine." People never believe me. But I'm telling the truth. Just toss them down. |
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Originally Posted By SWIRE: Meet my new retaining wall project supervisor. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/680/fox_log_JPG-2396248.jpg It has nothing to do with the fact that I may place a hotdog on that log from time to time. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/680/fox_log2_JPG-2396254.jpg Always giving me the stink eye when I'm not working. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/680/fox_log3_JPG-2396255.jpg And motioning for me to get back to work because that wall isn't going to build itself. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/680/fox_log4_JPG-2396256.jpg View Quote Clearly she has your best interest at heart! |
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: Don't bury the iris tubers. Just toss them on the ground and put a very light covering of mulch or something on them. View Quote Would I not want to bury them about the same depth they are when I dig them up? They are done flowering and I need to get them moved in the next few days. |
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Originally Posted By SWIRE: Would I not want to bury them about the same depth they are when I dig them up? They are done flowering and I need to get them moved in the next few days. View Quote No, honestly you don't. At least don't bury them much. I'm scared to even mulch my iris much. Cut the leaves back to a few inches tall, lift them with a fork, make a shallow spot in the new bed and set them in. push a little dirt up around the edges of the clump. If they come up individually, just loosen the dirt and put them down. If you can't quite do that, just don't bury them. Put a tiny amount of soil around the roots and leave the top sides of the tubers showing. |
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Originally Posted By SWIRE: Was finally able to capture of picture of the two foxes out just before dark. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/680/two_foxes_JPG-2433410.jpg View Quote Awwww. |
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: Originally Posted By SWIRE: Was finally able to capture of picture of the two foxes out just before dark. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/680/two_foxes_JPG-2433410.jpg Awwww. @Kitties-with-Sigs It gets better. I've been working to get the male more comfortable with my presence. I have an update that I will be posting in the near future. I'll leave a hint, the number 5 is involved. |
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Originally Posted By SWIRE: I've been working to get the male to trust/tolerate me more. Making some progress. I've gotten the male to come closer. Male and female waiting for pieces of hotdog. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/680/2foxes_JPG-2444135.jpg View Quote She looks better fed than the male. I'm giving the credit for that, to you and your hot dogs. ;0) |
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Originally Posted By ENGCPT: Well, we're waiting! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ENGCPT: Originally Posted By SWIRE: @Kitties-with-Sigs It gets better. I've been working to get the male more comfortable with my presence. I have an update that I will be posting in the near future. I'll leave a hint, the number 5 is involved. Well, we're waiting! There has been so much going on and things have been changing that it is hard to even know where to start. I don't want to give it all away at once. I have a lot of video of the foxes and spent a lot of time trying to get the shots. It has been a blast the last couple of weeks. Just being out in the yard and garden with the foxes running around during the daylight has been a great experience. To begin with the hint 5 was incorrect but more on that later. I'll start with this video called "What does the Gray Fox Say?". There is one spoiler in it but you have to be quick to notice. The video is mainly the male fox, which I call Fred, and the female. Fred was not happy with my presence for 2 days and let me know. After that he settled down. What Does The Gray Fox Say? |
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The next clip is sort of a preview. It starts the first night near dark and the camera would not focus correctly. You get to see the foxes but it's blurry. The last clip gets better. In the video is Fred, the female, and others.
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One unusual trait of the gray fox is its tree climbing ability. It is the only fox capable of climbing a tree. Video of the female climbing part way up the tree several times to retrieve a hotdog.
Gray Fox Climbing a Tree |
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Enjoy 15 minutes of relaxation with a Wild Gray Fox.
Relax with a Resting Wild Gray Fox. 15 Minutes of Relaxing Music. |
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Raw footage of the fox family from 6/30/2022. Cute half grown foxes towards the end.
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This is still just scratching the surface of the video footage that I have. The foxes were hanging out near the shed for about two days, then the male took two down towards the creek and only 2 were at the shed. The male continued to move the kits away from the shed and then across the bridge.
Now the female still hangs around, Fred will come if here hears me feeding her but then runs off with the food. He is either making the young ones learn how to track their food or he is just trying to move them across the creek. He will let the younger ones see that he has food and then takes off full speed down the hill, across the bridge, and into the woods. The little ones are right on his tail trying to keep up. Then he comes back for more food and repeats the process. The female will occasionally take food down to them as well. |
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It was obvious the female had little ones and was nursing. In the pictures it looked like she might have been feeding 2 babies as just her back 2 nipples seemed to be used. What happened in the video below was unexpected and amazed me. I never would have guess she was nursing 4 kits! Previously I had seen 3 of them running around but stayed quiet about posting it here as I was trying to get better footage. I ended up getting the best footage possible. This video, which I was lucky enough to be rolling when this happened, shows 4 little ones running up to and going into the shed with their mother. This scenario only happened once as the male started moving them away from the shed and across the bridge. Mother and Four Gray Fox Kits |
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Originally Posted By SWIRE: I installed the first section as it got dark and used a level go from block to block. When I checked it the next morning with a string line I found using just a level is not good enough. The string line shows how far off I was about 25 feet down the line. All those blocks had to be pulled out and reset costing me a day of work. . . . Made it to the corner and put in a second string line for the side wall. Prior to this I didn't put much stake in string lines but building this wall has changed my opinion on that. View Quote Not sure how I have never seen this thread before. Have been enjoying it this morning over coffee. Thanks for posting it. Quoting this because I just got done pulling apart a raised bed garden I am building out of block after I learned this exact lesson. It is just a little project I thought. Not worth taking the time to stake it out and run a line. Halfway through the two sides were running out from each other by two inches. Over the full course I would have had a four inch gap between blocks at the far end. Nobody seems to have invented a block stretcher, so out it came. The string line not only makes the layout more accurate, it lets you work faster because you do not spend all the time trying to square and level each block to each other. Just check against the line, and if it is within whatever your tolerance is, set the next one. |
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Originally Posted By vtmarine: Not sure how I have never seen this thread before. Have been enjoying it this morning over coffee. Thanks for posting it. Quoting this because I just got done pulling apart a raised bed garden I am building out of block after I learned this exact lesson. It is just a little project I thought. Not worth taking the time to stake it out and run a line. Halfway through the two sides were running out from each other by two inches. Over the full course I would have had a four inch gap between blocks at the far end. Nobody seems to have invented a block stretcher, so out it came. The string line not only makes the layout more accurate, it lets you work faster because you do not spend all the time trying to square and level each block to each other. Just check against the line, and if it is within whatever your tolerance is, set the next one. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By vtmarine: Originally Posted By SWIRE: I installed the first section as it got dark and used a level go from block to block. When I checked it the next morning with a string line I found using just a level is not good enough. The string line shows how far off I was about 25 feet down the line. All those blocks had to be pulled out and reset costing me a day of work. . . . Made it to the corner and put in a second string line for the side wall. Prior to this I didn't put much stake in string lines but building this wall has changed my opinion on that. Not sure how I have never seen this thread before. Have been enjoying it this morning over coffee. Thanks for posting it. Quoting this because I just got done pulling apart a raised bed garden I am building out of block after I learned this exact lesson. It is just a little project I thought. Not worth taking the time to stake it out and run a line. Halfway through the two sides were running out from each other by two inches. Over the full course I would have had a four inch gap between blocks at the far end. Nobody seems to have invented a block stretcher, so out it came. The string line not only makes the layout more accurate, it lets you work faster because you do not spend all the time trying to square and level each block to each other. Just check against the line, and if it is within whatever your tolerance is, set the next one. Yeah, the block walls get out of line really quick. There are people that do it without a line but they have developed the skills to see it. I was shocked that even with a level going from block to block how far it got out of line in just 35 feet. I still haven't finished that wall. Too many projects going on all at the same time. I did add more courses but the custom cuts on each end disrupted the work and then needing to get it back filled with rock and compacted also derailed things. The lawn doesn't stop growing, the gardens need to get put in and taken care of, trees keep getting blown down...and of course being distracted by the foxes doesn't help. I am close to getting the main part of the wall done though. |
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Originally Posted By SWIRE: This is still just scratching the surface of the video footage that I have. The foxes were hanging out near the shed for about two days, then the male took two down towards the creek and only 2 were at the shed. The male continued to move the kits away from the shed and then across the bridge. Now the female still hangs around, Fred will come if here hears me feeding her but then runs off with the food. He is either making the young ones learn how to track their food or he is just trying to move them across the creek. He will let the younger ones see that he has food and then takes off full speed down the hill, across the bridge, and into the woods. The little ones are right on his tail trying to keep up. Then he comes back for more food and repeats the process. The female will occasionally take food down to them as well. View Quote Teaching them to hunt, IMO. We lost a whole flock of mallards--probably 40 in one night, when the pond dried up and the parents were teaching them to hunt. They couldn't eat all that at once, but the hunt opportunity to learn was a good one for them. Bad for our ducks, but great for the fox. |
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Originally Posted By SWIRE: @Kitties-with-Sigs It was obvious the female had little ones and was nursing. In the pictures it looked like she might have been feeding 2 babies as just her back 2 nipples seemed to be used. What happened in the video below was unexpected and amazed me. I never would have guess she was nursing 4 kits! Previously I had seen 3 of them running around but stayed quiet about posting it here as I was trying to get better footage. I ended up getting the best footage possible. This video, which I was lucky enough to be rolling when this happened, shows 4 little ones running up to and going into the shed with their mother. This scenario only happened once as the male started moving them away from the shed and across the bridge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4eKuEkWsyw View Quote Ohhhhhh! |
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Originally Posted By SWIRE: Animals at the bridge earlier this year. I haven't seen a coyote there is a couple of years. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/680/animals_at_bridge-2481638.jpg View Quote All taken by your game camera, right? |
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: All taken by your game camera, right? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: Originally Posted By SWIRE: Animals at the bridge earlier this year. I haven't seen a coyote there is a couple of years. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/680/animals_at_bridge-2481638.jpg All taken by your game camera, right? Correct. I'm slowly working on getting a better camera setup because the game camera doesn't catch anything smaller than a coyote. The foxes run across the bridge constantly I don't I have a single video of them. |
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On the subject of the walnut trees that were declining last year, the Kentucky Division of Forestry reached out to me this week because I sent in branch samples last year. They are still looking for walnut twig beetles and are currently placing traps around the state to see if they can catch any. They asked if I would like to participate and I agreed. They will place just one trap on the property, filled with some type of liquid bait to draw in the beetles if they are in the area. Every two weeks they will come and check on the trap for about 6 weeks.
I mentioned the sycamore tree dying off and was told there is a different fungus that has been killing them off as will. In addition to setting up the trap they will schedule a site visit for sometime soon. I have other trees that are declining and a couple dead trees that I hadn't noticed until this year. |
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Originally Posted By SWIRE: On the subject of the walnut trees that were declining last year, the Kentucky Division of Forestry reached out to me this week because I sent in branch samples last year. They are still looking for walnut twig beetles and are currently placing traps around the state to see if they can catch any. They asked if I would like to participate and I agreed. They will place just one trap on the property, filled with some type of liquid bait to draw in the beetles if they are in the area. Every two weeks they will come and check on the trap for about 6 weeks. I mentioned the sycamore tree dying off and was told there is a different fungus that has been killing them off as will. In addition to setting up the trap they will schedule a site visit for sometime soon. I have other trees that are declining and a couple dead trees that I hadn't noticed until this year. View Quote It's so very hard for me to watch the decline of so many of our big old trees. We will be left with Ailanthus altissima, Catalpa spp, Maclura pomifera and Acer negundo. They're all like roaches. Survive anything. |
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: It's so very hard for me to watch the decline of so many of our big old trees. We will be left with Ailanthus altissima, Catalpa spp, Maclura pomifera and Acer negundo. They're all like roaches. Survive anything. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: Originally Posted By SWIRE: On the subject of the walnut trees that were declining last year, the Kentucky Division of Forestry reached out to me this week because I sent in branch samples last year. They are still looking for walnut twig beetles and are currently placing traps around the state to see if they can catch any. They asked if I would like to participate and I agreed. They will place just one trap on the property, filled with some type of liquid bait to draw in the beetles if they are in the area. Every two weeks they will come and check on the trap for about 6 weeks. I mentioned the sycamore tree dying off and was told there is a different fungus that has been killing them off as will. In addition to setting up the trap they will schedule a site visit for sometime soon. I have other trees that are declining and a couple dead trees that I hadn't noticed until this year. It's so very hard for me to watch the decline of so many of our big old trees. We will be left with Ailanthus altissima, Catalpa spp, Maclura pomifera and Acer negundo. They're all like roaches. Survive anything. I'm still battling the Ailanthus altissima. I took several down this spring but still have about 20 more to go. What is wrong with Catalpa and Osage Orange? I have one of each and they aren't causing any problems. As for the boxelder I've taken down several and have a few more to go. What is taking over the property is hackberry. They made up about 50% of the trees. I've been removing those as I go as well. Back in early July I lost another black cherry, it got snapped off at the base during the high winds. Unfortunately that took out the top half of a red maple when it fell. I have two more black cherry trees with about a 30 degree lean. I don't want to take them down but they are a major safety hazard leaning that much. |
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There are a couple different projects going on but I find the foxes the most interesting. Here is what is going on with them.
The video I posted was of the 4 kits running into the shed followed by the mom. That was the only time I captured them all together as the male started moving them further away. At first he took 2 and moved them down by the creek and she had 2 at the shed. Then I would only see one kit at the shed. Stills from the video of the 4 kits with the mom. The first image is one kit next to the mom and you can see some gray further down the hill. Second picture is of the other 3 kits. If you haven't seen the video you should watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4eKuEkWsyw For awhile I was able to call the male, I named him Fred, and he would show up and take food to the kits. I believe he was using the food as a way to both train them and move them. He would grab the hotdog and then take off running down the hill and across the creek as fast as possible. The kits would follow trying to get the food but then only he would return. Fred moved them further across the creek and into a wooded area I haven't cleared. Eventually he stopped showing up so I went back to feeding just the mom and 1 to 2 kits in the shed if they showed up. I started having some issues with people cutting through the property and probably going through the wooded section where Fred had moved the kits. Then I started noticing the mom taking food to area to a wood patch on the near side of the creek. A couple weeks past with no sightings of the other kits but an occasional sitting of what I assumed was Fred south of the shed. Then the kit that stayed in the shed started following the mom and venturing out more. Here they are up next to the house. Then things got really fun. The other kits started showing up. I believe Fred brought them back from across the bridge and has them in a fenced off wooded area on the south side of my property. They too seem to be ignoring the direction of the parents and wandering around more. I don't see the kits during the say but at night this is now what has been greeting me the last couple days at dusk. The kits are 80% grown and in low light from a distance it is hard to tell them apart from the adults. It is the female in the foreground and I believe the 4 kits in the background but the furthest one away could be Fred as one of the kits is a runt and still very skittish. These are the faces looking at me when I tell them there are no more hotdogs left and I'm getting ready to leave. Video of Gray fox kits playing and chasing after bites of hotdog. Seeing the video is ok but being there and feeding them in person is awesome. I need to get better lighting to get good video, the kits come out in the darkest part of the yard. Gray Fox Kits Playing and Chasing After Bites of Food |
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Originally Posted By SWIRE: I was able to capture a picture of the whole fox family tonight. Sorry for the potato quality, this is the darkest corner of the yard and I was using a flashlight in one hand to illuminate the area a bit and take the picture on my phone with the other. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/680/fox_family-2500562.jpg View Quote Oh good. I was worried about the other kit. |
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: Oh good. I was worried about the other kit. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: Originally Posted By SWIRE: I was able to capture a picture of the whole fox family tonight. Sorry for the potato quality, this is the darkest corner of the yard and I was using a flashlight in one hand to illuminate the area a bit and take the picture on my phone with the other. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/680/fox_family-2500562.jpg Oh good. I was worried about the other kit. My eyes may have been playing tricks on me last night but several times I was sure that I saw 7 foxes! The middle of the yard is terraced and I would count 4 on the top terrace and 3 on the bottom. But those little guys move quick and it was dark but multiple times I could have sworn I counted 7. Also the female several times would hear something and run to the terrace wall to look down at the lower level which suggests there was something she heard that was out of the ordinary. |
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They all look really healthy!
Maybe one of last year's kits coming around to make number 7? |
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