JULY 15, 2010
Red Foxes, Connecticut
Photograph by Kevin LeShane, Your Shot
This Month in Photo of the Day: Animals
Recently, a red fox has been hunting in the marsh behind my condo on the Connecticut shoreline. I've seen her during the early morning hours when I walk my dog and on my way to work. I thought it strange to see a traditionally circumspect creature in such a public venue. These two are the explanation, it turns out. She and her two kits (featured here) have a den within the boulders of the seawall by the town docks. Every day they become more curious of their enraptured audience, us.
Connecticut!? I wonder if I can catch one... >:D
ReplyDeleteHm. No, Tarot wouldn't like that. He likes being the most mysterious thing in the apartment.
One of the only fond memories I have of living in a place I hated was seeing a fox family crossing an otherwise-deserted road in front of us late one night. We pulled over and stopped to watch them as they traversed a field under the moonlight... and we held our breaths until we could no longer see them, so as not to disturb this exquisite vision.
ReplyDeleteIt was like an unexpected gift. :)
Lovely fuzzy foxies!
ReplyDeleteIt's a little funny to me that the photographer is so surprised to find them near human habitations; that's what happens when animals run out of traditional habitats.
I actually had a fox that lived in the neighborhood of my just recently former home. She would show up at dusk. They are still fairly common in our area of Miami. I can't imagine how difficult the life of a fox in a city of such population density could be... Cars, stray dogs, poisoned rodents... there are so many threats. :(
ReplyDeleteLovely recollection, Glam...
My neighbors hate me, but in the winter, when food is so scarce, I put out stuff for the foxes and possums. There is one particular fox- she has a atrophied leg (natural-I remember her when she was a cub), and she has been coming behind my house for a couple of years now.
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