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Friday, January 25, 2013 5:02 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

Yep. Foxes all around.

Up on the deck.

In the back yard.

Sleeping on the compost heap.

And in the garden.

And they're multiplying.

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Friday, January 25, 2013 5:14 AM

AGENTROUKA

Awwwwwww. :)

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Friday, January 25, 2013 5:33 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Awww indeed.

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." - Socrates

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Friday, January 25, 2013 7:01 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Definitely "awww". Is this around your home? If so, I'm extremely envious!

Heck, you might even see kits eventually!!! (drool, drool)

Tit for tat got us where we are today. If we want to be grownups, we need to resist the ugliness. If we each did, this would be a better reflection on Firefly and a more welcome place. I will try.

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Friday, January 25, 2013 8:07 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Definitely "awww". Is this around your home? If so, I'm extremely envious!

Heck, you might even see kits eventually!!! (drool, drool)

Right in our back yard. The sleeping foxes are 30-40 feet from the house and these pictures are taken from our dining room or den doors. They seem to like the leaves on the compost heap because the decomposing compost is warmer than regular ground. It's a rare day that we don't see at least one fox, and often two. Also have deer a couple of days a week.

Unfortunately, we don't see chipmunks as often as we used to before the foxes showed up.

"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

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Friday, January 25, 2013 9:34 AM

FREMDFIRMA

I'm a little surprised they'd come that close - the ones around here will bolt at the mere sight/scent of humans, about the only one who sees them is me and that never for long, certainly not long enough to whip out a camera.

The groundskeepers love em though, cause they're the only thing around here which will eat those hell-spawned monster gopher/woodchuck/groundhogs things we get, they're HUGE, although "Groundzilla" was a special case even for here.

-F

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Friday, January 25, 2013 10:46 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

I'm a little surprised they'd come that close - the ones around here will bolt at the mere sight/scent of humans, about the only one who sees them is me and that never for long, certainly not long enough to whip out a camera.

The groundskeepers love em though, cause they're the only thing around here which will eat those hell-spawned monster gopher/woodchuck/groundhogs things we get, they're HUGE, although "Groundzilla" was a special case even for here.

-F

It's hard to see into our house from back where they hang out, so as long as we're quiet, they'll stay. Try to open a door to get a clearer picture, though, and they're on the move. We live an a subdivision about 15 miles (as the crow flies) from the U.S. Capital, and less than 2 miles from the Capital Beltway and I-95, so any critters around here have to be pretty much accustomed to people smell.

Fortunately, Fairfax county has zoned many of the floodplains around here as stream-valley parks, so we, and the foxes and deer, can walk from our back yard through a common area and straight down to the Pohick stream valley, where there's plenty of woods, and several miles of trail along the creek.

The deer population has gotten so high the county had to allow archery hunting along Pohick to reduce the deer to sustainable numbers.

"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

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Friday, January 25, 2013 10:56 AM

CHRISISALL

Those aren't even real foxes, they're obviously dolls or something. I will never trust faux news.

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Friday, January 25, 2013 12:27 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Those aren't even real foxes, they're obviously dolls or something. I will never trust faux news.

Megyn Kelly's are too real!

And she IS a doll.

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Friday, January 25, 2013 1:47 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I wish I had some around here. But your pictures are a great substitute!

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Saturday, January 26, 2013 9:10 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Oh, man, I am SO jealous! Before everyone around us put up fences, we had all manner of wildlife in our back yard...but never foxes. I've seen them occasionally--rarely--here and there on the protected lands, but Frem is right; of all the wildlife I know, foxes are THE most secretive.

Up at MMC we had a litter born down the road where we could see them in some construction pipes--was wonderful to watch the kits playing, but that was decades ago. To have them that close, that often...wow. I'd trade anyone our frequent sightings of coyotes around here for just one glimpse of a fox, out in the open where I could really see it! The one sleeping in the compost heap is gorgeous--I'm not surprised they seek out the warmth of it.

Thank you for this, it was a real treat, and at least let me live vicariously through you!

Tit for tat got us where we are today. If we want to be grownups, we need to resist the ugliness. If we each did, this would be a better reflection on Firefly and a more welcome place. I will try.

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Saturday, January 26, 2013 5:21 PM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Oh, man, I am SO jealous! Before everyone around us put up fences, we had all manner of wildlife in our back yard...but never foxes. I've seen them occasionally--rarely--here and there on the protected lands, but Frem is right; of all the wildlife I know, foxes are THE most secretive.

We're really lucky here in that when this subdivision was built, they left a common area about 30 feet wide between the lots on our street and the houses behind us, in which no one can build fences or other structures. Also, no one on our street has built fences around their back yards, so it's really open for critters to pass through.

What's really interesting is that when we moved here in the early 1990s, there was no wildlife except for squirrels and birds. Now we see foxes, deer, raccoons, possums, and all sorts of hawks. In the last ten years or so I've seen blue herons, beaver, several varieties of ducks, wild turkey, and even a coyote down in the stream valley park.

"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

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Sunday, January 27, 2013 9:16 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

They built like that out in the Valley (yeah, the Big Valley, you know the one...), in some areas. It's so neat; we visited some relative or other of Jims, and between the backyards was this HUGE expanse of green, trees lining it on either side, and RABBITS here and there! I was jealous of them, too...

We're not COMPLETELY suburbanized, there is plenty of open space forest all around us and above us on the hill, so we see deer, raccoons, possums all the time. Night before last I had to get out of bed and yell at a couple of "bandits" (we call racoons that) who were having an "argument" in the open area behind our yard. Couldn't go to sleep with all that racket, since my Outback is almost against the back fence! We hear them arguing frequently, and the dogs have treed a couple of families occasionally. They mostly stay away from our redwoods now because of the huskies, except to use the trees as a highway, .

Herons and egrets ABOUND in Marin; you can't drive around for more than two hours without spotting a snowy egret, greater egret, or less commonly, a Great Blue Heron. And tons and tons of ducks, since we're right on the Bay--but beaver: I'm jealous again! Yeah, wild turkeys all over the place too, we even had two wander right up the middle of the street one evening--all the neighbors out with cameras (since you usually only see them out in cow country or up on the ridge)--funny to watch.

Geez, we've got coyotes all over the place! Sulkied a new spot I adore, Concrete Pipe Road, which is up in the protected watershed, the other day. Jim was behind us on his bicycle and had a coyote come right out on the fire road, and stick around long enough for him to photograph AND video! We met a couple of bicyclists a bit later who said he's a regular there and they see him all the time, bold as brass!

Today the dogs and I had our biggest thrill ever out at the Ponds. We spotted one of the resident coyotes strolling right in the middle of the trail in broad daylight--the dogs took off like bullets and I hung on for dear life while we chased him for a good long ways. I knew where he was going to pull off the trail (we've seen them numerous times before) so had to haul back on the reins and stick a leg out so the dogs didn't pull the sulky down off the trail--a good 10 or 15 feet down from the berm! They didn't even notice and ran right by, and we proceeded to all but cut him off from his escape route a couple of minutes later. BIG thrill--wish I had a helmet cam, 'cuz there was no WAY I was going to do anything but hang on and pray!

Given all that I guess I shouldn't bitch and moan...but foxes, oh, I DO love foxes, and to have them that close...AND to have that much wildlife all around, which that open area must encourage. And I've never seen a beaver in the wild (don't think we have 'em around here); that would be a heck of a thrill, too.

Rattle, rattle, rattle...sorry, but I DO envy you...sigh...

Tit for tat got us where we are today. If we want to be grownups, we need to resist the ugliness. If we each did, this would be a better reflection on Firefly and a more welcome place. I will try.

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Sunday, January 27, 2013 7:59 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

Foxes!!!

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Sunday, January 27, 2013 11:27 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

I love foxes. Beautiful animals.

Unfortunately they are vermin here :(

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