I had gotten off my sick couch to take a few minutes to swap out the 2nd and 3rd bedroom closet door pulls for new ones and come back downstairs. It's usually cold in those rooms if we don't leave the doors open (or turn on the baseboard heaters), but it seemed extra cold tonight and since it didn't get above 10 degrees on our thermometer today I went to the kitchen window to see if I could see the thermometer through the last bit of twilight. I could not read it clearly and just as I turned away to grab a light, I saw movement out there. It was a
red fox trotting (heh) up the side and around the back of the house!
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| Vulpes vulpes (so nice they named 'em twice). It looked a lot like this only more trees in the background and nearly dark outside. |
Eric was reading by the woodstove and after a second of speechlessness I started whisper-squealing, "There's a fox! There's a fox! There's a fox!" He was able to catch sight of it, too, as we moved to the windows are the back of the house, but luckily the dogs did not and didn't seem to get too worked up over our excitement.
Oh how wonderful! I love foxes and their foxy foxiness... :)
ReplyDeleteI've never seen one in the wild! And this is definitely the biggest carnivorous type mammal we've seen around here so far.
DeleteSo exciting! Makes me want to move to the outskirts of Vegas so I can see some desert life rather than live in the middle of the burbs.
ReplyDeleteYou need to be out where you can spot lizards and toads! Not just the lounge-y kind, either. :)
DeleteWe had that variety of fox and the longer legged ones that look as if they fell out of an English hunting party painting when we lived in the country. Leezards, possums, raccoons and deers. All gorgeous! Hope you can get a pic of yours.
ReplyDeleteThere's another kind of fox on the east side of the state, but I think this is our only one. I'm pretty sure we don't have many leezards, either!
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