As I was headed across the kitchen this morning to go to the porch, a blur of motion outside caught my attention. A fox right near the house. With a dead squirrel. The best kind of squirrel in my opinion. Quick, where is my camera? This may not be heady stuff to you bloggers up in Wisconsin and Minnesota, but this is a nature show at its finest here in Delaware. This first picture does not include the prize, so if you don't want to see dead squirrel, please check out some other post and come back later.
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| Successful fox, 3/28/2012 |
I don't think I missed the actual catch but by a couple of moments. Here the fox is about to pick up the squirrel that is hidden by the liriope. He may have actually hidden in that bed at the base of the ash tree.
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| Look Ma, I actually caught one! |
It was a beautiful young fox. Nice markings, black ears, no mange. The fox had to make sure that this squirrel was not going anywhere.
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| Better find out if I can move this thing |
He moved his prize to the middle of the yard and sat back down to start sampling. All this activity attracted a crow that flew in and perched in the ash tree. The crow cawed, probably hoping the fox would run off.
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| Forget it, this one is mine |
The fox stayed in the yard for 15 or 20 minutes. Then it did me a huge favor by picking up the squirrel to probably take it home to show off to the other young foxes. So I didn't even have to deal with the aftermath.
Quite an unusual start to the day.
