Here is one of the vixens with two of her kits.
For my new watchers a few facts, foxes are not native to San Juan Island where I live at this time.
All the foxes here on the island are from eight pair of foxes brought here by the British from England so the British officers could have their fox hunts when the island was a British territory in the 1800s as I remember from Washington history back in high school in the mid 1970s.
These foxes are red fox, because of the small gene pool here on the island the foxes are highly inbred so we see non red fox marking... I have seen some with wild markings on them as foxes go.
At night I have been hearing them call to each other more often so we have a pair near by.
These photos were taken about a mile from my place on the way back from Roche Harbor Market this evening.
For my new watchers a few facts, foxes are not native to San Juan Island where I live at this time.
All the foxes here on the island are from eight pair of foxes brought here by the British from England so the British officers could have their fox hunts when the island was a British territory in the 1800s as I remember from Washington history back in high school in the mid 1970s.
These foxes are red fox, because of the small gene pool here on the island the foxes are highly inbred so we see non red fox marking... I have seen some with wild markings on them as foxes go.
At night I have been hearing them call to each other more often so we have a pair near by.
These photos were taken about a mile from my place on the way back from Roche Harbor Market this evening.
Category Photography / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Canine (Other)
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It is a mixed bag with the kits... some stay what you see others will be bright red. Others may be tricolor. One of the crazy ones was head shoulders and front legs was black with gray chest, the middle was white, the hindquarter and tail was bright red the tail had a white and black tip.
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