Showing posts with label fox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fox. Show all posts

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Young Foxes Playing - Pure Joy!



Three young Gray Foxes show how to really play. The energy - the pure joy of life - you'll wish you were a fox. I discovered a fox family whose life is centered around a high Smoky Mountain meadow next to dense forest with an old sour peach tree as a centerpiece. Mom and Dad are out hunting while the young ones born in spring get plenty of exercise and find the small, hard sour peaches endlessly fascinating as they pick them from the trees and play with them like balls on the ground. This is late August, soon they will have to strike out on their own. You can see them practice their hunting skills by stalking and sneaking up and jumping on each other. This is just three minutes but they go on for hours each night - such energy and joy!

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young Gray Foxes playing

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Skunk Versus Fox - I Think You Know Who Walks!



I love to capture these little interactions between species - it gives insight into the animal community that passes through the backyard. A large Striped Skunk's aggressive defense posture with tail held high deters a Gray Fox from even thinking about messing with it in the Great Smoky Mountains. With memorable black and white markings and tail held high and hissing the skunk would rather conserve it's chemical spray for real combat. This is the skunks territory to come and go freely and no animal, save the Great Horned Owl who is immune to its toxic odor, will mess with it at night!

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Striped Skunk and Gray Fox


Sunday, August 17, 2014

Tree Climbing Fox


Gray Fox climbing a tree in the Backyard several times - and fast climbing too - with the ability to hold onto a vertical tree trunk in this case to eat suet for birds. Foxes are now addicted to suet. Video clearly shows the foxes technique. Very athletic and agile - the gray fox's ability to climb trees is shared only with the Asian Raccoon Dog among all canids. Its strong, hooked claws allow it to scramble up trees to escape many predators such as the domestic dog or the coyote, or to reach tree-bound or arboreal food sources. 

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Gray Fox climbing tree


Friday, May 31, 2013

Gray Fox Visits the Backyard

Video of Nocturnal Visit by Gray Fox
Gray Fox captured with Bushnell 8MP Trophy Cam HD Trail Camera

Gray Fox captured with Bushnell 8MP Trophy Cam HD Trail Camera


Continuing to evaluate and have fun with the  Bushnell 8MP Trophy Cam HD Trail Camera in the backyard. Captured this rare visit by a Gray Fox the other night. Gray foxes are interesting in that they can climb trees. They are the native fox species for the eastern United States. The Red Fox was imported for hunting. Foxes in our area are very leery of human interaction and are virtually never seen in the daytime.  I have been giving the Bushnell Trophy Cam a trial for all sorts of backyard applications in day and night and will share my results in a series of blogs with examples.