boogercounty
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...I have two or three grey foxes coming into the back side of my yard, where we dump the garbage. We live in a rural area. These foxes have been coming out into the open for about 2 weeks, now, and all hours of the day and night.
Two of them are definitely nursing females, and I think I have seen a male at different times. This morning, my wife saw 3 foxes at one time, all adults. One stayed back from the other two, after it got snapped at by one that was feeding. The females are distinguishable by the bare spots around the nipples. The one that I am calling a male has a smooth hairline on his belly, and the front of his front legs are almost black, with his(?) overall coloration being darker. They are feeding no more than 20 yards from my bedroom window, and I have been observing them, and video-taping them for the last couple of days.
Yesterday morning, I was taping as one was feeding on scraps, and saw it alert, then run. In a moment, here came a housecat from around the corner of the house, headed toward where the fox had been. I tried to scare the cat away by pecking on the glass, but no luck. Well, since the fox was gone, I decided to turn off the camera, and get ready to go to work. I shut off the camera, and just as I set it down, my wife yelled from the other room, "Did you see that"? She then told me that as the cat got close to where the fox was in the brush, the fox took in after the cat, and put it back into the yard, as fast as it could run!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Sure wish I had caught that on video.
How many kits will a grey fox produce, per litter?? When will the young venture out from the den?? Is there any chance they will come to feed with Momma??
There is an old abandoned sawmill yard, about 150 yards behind my property line, and I think this is where the foxes are denning. There are still a few old piles of rotting lumber, there, and most of the place is grown up in briars and brush.
They are interesting to watch while they are feeding. This evening, I put out some spoiled meat, ran a wire through some of the chunks, and tied the wire to a tree. I had the camera ready, and got some footage of one of them having to work for it's supper. Needless to say, it made short work of the meat on the wire.
Grey foxes seem to be in short supply, around here. We seldom call one in, and the houndsmen say that they seldom run a fox.
If this "hatch" is a good one, there may be a few more in this area, soon. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
Two of them are definitely nursing females, and I think I have seen a male at different times. This morning, my wife saw 3 foxes at one time, all adults. One stayed back from the other two, after it got snapped at by one that was feeding. The females are distinguishable by the bare spots around the nipples. The one that I am calling a male has a smooth hairline on his belly, and the front of his front legs are almost black, with his(?) overall coloration being darker. They are feeding no more than 20 yards from my bedroom window, and I have been observing them, and video-taping them for the last couple of days.
Yesterday morning, I was taping as one was feeding on scraps, and saw it alert, then run. In a moment, here came a housecat from around the corner of the house, headed toward where the fox had been. I tried to scare the cat away by pecking on the glass, but no luck. Well, since the fox was gone, I decided to turn off the camera, and get ready to go to work. I shut off the camera, and just as I set it down, my wife yelled from the other room, "Did you see that"? She then told me that as the cat got close to where the fox was in the brush, the fox took in after the cat, and put it back into the yard, as fast as it could run!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Sure wish I had caught that on video.
How many kits will a grey fox produce, per litter?? When will the young venture out from the den?? Is there any chance they will come to feed with Momma??
There is an old abandoned sawmill yard, about 150 yards behind my property line, and I think this is where the foxes are denning. There are still a few old piles of rotting lumber, there, and most of the place is grown up in briars and brush.
They are interesting to watch while they are feeding. This evening, I put out some spoiled meat, ran a wire through some of the chunks, and tied the wire to a tree. I had the camera ready, and got some footage of one of them having to work for it's supper. Needless to say, it made short work of the meat on the wire.
Grey foxes seem to be in short supply, around here. We seldom call one in, and the houndsmen say that they seldom run a fox.
If this "hatch" is a good one, there may be a few more in this area, soon. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
