Showing posts with label fox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fox. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
San Juan Foxes
Its time to visit the fox kits again. Just 5 red-colored kits not the 14 we saw last year in red, grey, sand, black coats. But got to see various behaviors, much better than last time. The kits were not into 'solid' food yet. The mums still nurse them (two mums nurse one litter - apparently not that uncommon) and regurgitate food. This kit-fox was only interested to play with a (dead) rabbit. Mum tries to teach a life lesson: don't play with your food... eat it! But playing is important too for learning hunting skills.
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
San Juan Foxes
In the 1930 rabbits were introduced to San Juan Island and proliferate wildly. In order to reduce the rabbit numbers foxes were brought in and their population too grew to considerable numbers.
In early May the fox kids come out of their dens. They are not very shy which makes for fantastic photo opportunities. At times we saw more than a dozen little foxes play and chase each other. Extremely cute!
Friday, June 23, 2017
San Juan Foxes - June 20
A while ago I saw a beautiful photo of foxes at a friends house. It was taken quite close to Vancouver on San Juan Island. So when the flying weather looked sufficiently bad I got my act and gear together and headed down to Washington and over to San Juan.
As most things, the approximate location of the foxes can be found on the internet, but I didn't expect I would be so lucky to pull up to the first parking spot by the beach and have a fox walk straight over to me. The little fellows are completely unafraid of people, mostly because they receive hand-outs frequently. The foxes were so close I didn't pull out my longest lens a single time. Over the next few hours (during solstice sunset) I had plenty of opportunity to fill my SD cards with photos. This was a perfect evening except for the foxes fondness to take a nap right on the asphalt (enjoying the warmth of the day or waiting for food?).
On the next day I toured the remainder of San Juan Island, saw some amazingly big Arbutus trees and explored the whale watching spot at Lime Kiln State Park but only one minke whale made a quick appearance.
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