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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Desert Fox Visit to Sedona Part 2
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Here's the next set of amazing photos of our gray Desert Fox who came for a vist yesterday around 11:00 A.M. Enjoy!
Here our desert fox friend is going after a bug that it saw. The fox is incredibly fast; in a second he can turn, leap, twist and land on four feet in a blink of an eye!
The desert fox suddenly turned toward the sundeck on our guest mobile home. He heard something.....
The fox is all ears and goes straight to the sundeck without hesitation. What has he heard?
Moments later, the desert fox comes out with a mouse in his mouth!
After eating the mouse in one gulp, the desert fox returned to beneath the mobile home. There is an opening in the skirt around it and he's looking at it.
The desert fox sticks his nose in the opening. To my utter astonishment, he squeezes through it and is under the mobile home! The hole wasn't that big! Amazing!
Then, he came back out the hole, under the sundeck and out near the stairs and heading toward our house.
He goes past our Toyota Sienna van and you can see how small he is compared to the van.
The Desert Fox strolls right up our brick walk, up on the deck, goes around to the back, looks in our window (that photo is in Part 1 of the blog) and then curved around our rocking chair.
And he keeps on going on the sundeck, jumps off it and goes down to Oak Creek to spy on some mallard ducks in the middle of it.
Today, the Desert Fox didn't return. We were looking for him but he was nowhere to be found. We think that he's last year's litter from Desert Fox mama who has lived around here forever. And this is a young male. We know he's not full grown by his tail and size. The tail gets super bushy and thick--looks like a huge bottle brush and you can see on him that his isn't anywhere near that size. We think that his is a young male that's been chased off by Mama Desert Fox and he's looking for his OWN territory and a place to live. We just got lucky when he was looking around our place as his new 'home.'
Stay tuned...around here, you NEVER know what might happen next ;-)
Warmly, Lindsay McKenna
Here's the next set of amazing photos of our gray Desert Fox who came for a vist yesterday around 11:00 A.M. Enjoy!
Here our desert fox friend is going after a bug that it saw. The fox is incredibly fast; in a second he can turn, leap, twist and land on four feet in a blink of an eye!
The desert fox suddenly turned toward the sundeck on our guest mobile home. He heard something.....
The fox is all ears and goes straight to the sundeck without hesitation. What has he heard?
Moments later, the desert fox comes out with a mouse in his mouth!
After eating the mouse in one gulp, the desert fox returned to beneath the mobile home. There is an opening in the skirt around it and he's looking at it.
The desert fox sticks his nose in the opening. To my utter astonishment, he squeezes through it and is under the mobile home! The hole wasn't that big! Amazing!
Then, he came back out the hole, under the sundeck and out near the stairs and heading toward our house.
He goes past our Toyota Sienna van and you can see how small he is compared to the van.
The Desert Fox strolls right up our brick walk, up on the deck, goes around to the back, looks in our window (that photo is in Part 1 of the blog) and then curved around our rocking chair.
And he keeps on going on the sundeck, jumps off it and goes down to Oak Creek to spy on some mallard ducks in the middle of it.
Today, the Desert Fox didn't return. We were looking for him but he was nowhere to be found. We think that he's last year's litter from Desert Fox mama who has lived around here forever. And this is a young male. We know he's not full grown by his tail and size. The tail gets super bushy and thick--looks like a huge bottle brush and you can see on him that his isn't anywhere near that size. We think that his is a young male that's been chased off by Mama Desert Fox and he's looking for his OWN territory and a place to live. We just got lucky when he was looking around our place as his new 'home.'
Stay tuned...around here, you NEVER know what might happen next ;-)
Warmly, Lindsay McKenna
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
A Desert Fox visited us!
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Well, when the Moon is in Pisces, crazy and unexplained things happen! Take a look. At eleven a.m., I'd just got done writing my chapter for my latest HQN, "The Angel's Song" (working title) and Cody, our Golden Retriever began barking. He was out in his cycloned fence area next to the house. I saw Dave coming quickly down from the green house area.
When Dave met me he told me there was a Gray Fox around and pointed at it. It was over by our two huge compost bins leaping into the air to catch a bird--and it did. Then, for the next thirty minutes, it proceeded to go under my hogan and then under our double-wide mobile home guest house. Then, watch what happened next:
Here's the desert fox strolls up our sidewalk right to Cody's pen! Good thing we had him inside at the time. She shows no fear at all!
She turns around and decides to get a drink of water out of our lily pad pond! That is right down in front of our window where I was taking these photos. She didn't care we were there!
And then, seeing us in the window, she decided to lay down next to our brick flower planter that is next to the house. Amazing.
Then, she got up and came around to the rear sun deck where our sliding glass door is located--and looked in our window--with us standing there with the dog! You notice she's standing on the "welcome" mat.
Our Desert Fox then went around the rear sun deck and went down it and down to Oak Creek. She then went out into the neighbor's field and disappeared. Dave and I debated as to what was going on. I thought she might have rabies because she was not gunshy of us at all. In the past, we would sometimes see her about twenty feet beyond our fence in the deep grass. And when she saw that we saw her--she'd run off.
I decided to call Fish and Game. They asked if she was foaming or drooling at the mouth and I said, "No." Then they asked if she was aggressive toward us. We were, at one point, fifty feet away from her. I said, "No, she just went on hunting for bugs and whatever she could find and completely ignored us." They didn't think she had rabies. They said that she could be "habituating" which means she might be claiming our place as her new 'home.'
That won't do because our cat, which probably outweighs her, would be a target. And, we thought that maybe she had kits under the hogan or under the mobile home. She went under each of them. So, who knows? It was a crazy day. We'll just keep alert the next several days. I hope this was a unique event. And I truly hope she doesn't have rabies. But, we'll have to be on guard. Still, these are wonderful photos of such a beautiful animal.
Well, when the Moon is in Pisces, crazy and unexplained things happen! Take a look. At eleven a.m., I'd just got done writing my chapter for my latest HQN, "The Angel's Song" (working title) and Cody, our Golden Retriever began barking. He was out in his cycloned fence area next to the house. I saw Dave coming quickly down from the green house area.
When Dave met me he told me there was a Gray Fox around and pointed at it. It was over by our two huge compost bins leaping into the air to catch a bird--and it did. Then, for the next thirty minutes, it proceeded to go under my hogan and then under our double-wide mobile home guest house. Then, watch what happened next:
Here's the desert fox strolls up our sidewalk right to Cody's pen! Good thing we had him inside at the time. She shows no fear at all!
She turns around and decides to get a drink of water out of our lily pad pond! That is right down in front of our window where I was taking these photos. She didn't care we were there!
And then, seeing us in the window, she decided to lay down next to our brick flower planter that is next to the house. Amazing.
Then, she got up and came around to the rear sun deck where our sliding glass door is located--and looked in our window--with us standing there with the dog! You notice she's standing on the "welcome" mat.
Our Desert Fox then went around the rear sun deck and went down it and down to Oak Creek. She then went out into the neighbor's field and disappeared. Dave and I debated as to what was going on. I thought she might have rabies because she was not gunshy of us at all. In the past, we would sometimes see her about twenty feet beyond our fence in the deep grass. And when she saw that we saw her--she'd run off.
I decided to call Fish and Game. They asked if she was foaming or drooling at the mouth and I said, "No." Then they asked if she was aggressive toward us. We were, at one point, fifty feet away from her. I said, "No, she just went on hunting for bugs and whatever she could find and completely ignored us." They didn't think she had rabies. They said that she could be "habituating" which means she might be claiming our place as her new 'home.'
That won't do because our cat, which probably outweighs her, would be a target. And, we thought that maybe she had kits under the hogan or under the mobile home. She went under each of them. So, who knows? It was a crazy day. We'll just keep alert the next several days. I hope this was a unique event. And I truly hope she doesn't have rabies. But, we'll have to be on guard. Still, these are wonderful photos of such a beautiful animal.
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