Paul Pastina had this beautiful Gray Fox pay him a visit recently, resting in the grasses.
Yes, Gray Foxes have a lot of red highlights. Gray Foxes are also called Tree Foxes for their ability to climb trees and even telephone poles.
Thanks to Paul for allowing me to share his photo with you here.
Robert and Nancy Scarola were visited by a Gray Fox family. The mother went off to hunt for a gopher and left her three kits on a flat rock to wait for her.
She returned with a gopher in her mouth and the three kits were then free to play in the Scarola's garden. A photo of what happened next will be in Thursday's edition of the Independent Coast Observer. It shows why Gray Foxes are also called Tree Foxes!
Thanks to Robert for allowing me to share his photo with you here.
Two young Gray Fox kits are growing up on the Sonoma Coast. Siegfried Matull captured a photo of the Foxes playing on a Redwood stump at his Sea Ranch home. You can see the beautiful orange-red highlights of the Foxes. In the right light they also have a blue cast to their fur - whoever named them "gray" must have been color-blind! Gray Foxes are also called Tree Foxes for their ability to climb most anything. They are fun to watch and to photograph. Thanks to Siegfried for allowing me to share his photo here.
Here's a link to an earlier photo by Craig Tooley of newborn Fox Kits on this site:
http://www.mendonomasightings.com/2011/08/31/two-photos-of-gray-fox-kits-by-coastal-photographer-craig-tooley/