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Gray Foxes Revisited

10/2/2019

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​     I'm revisiting Gray Foxes because I feel so fortunate that they keep revisiting me! (My original Glorious Gray Fox post was back in August)

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     In early September we started seeing what looked like a mom and two pups about the size of large cats, barely smaller than the "mom." Gray Foxes breed from about February to March and have a 53-day gestation period, according to Vermont Fish and Wildlife, which I recognize is a far hop from Arizona, but this is a beautiful website!

     Additionally, the site says the gray fox is "also known as the flying fox or tree fox because unlike most canids the gray fox has semi-retractable claws, which enable it to climb." If you want to see my foxes in trees, check out my August Gray Fox post. It's true. They climb like cats.
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     As with the Cows last week, foxes quite enjoy my birdbaths. Living in the high desert is thirsty business.

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​     Sometimes you have to wait your turn. There's a pecking order...

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     ...and I'm at the bottom. When I forget to fill the birdbath, I receive little reminder gifts.


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     I love my foxes just the same. Hope they have brightened someone else's day as well.

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    I made a career of writing software by day while scribbling stories by night, a combo made even odder by the fact that I started my adult life as a marine biologist/geneticist. 

    I got my Ph.D. ever so long ago, but I still love science, especially the biological variety. Now I write SciFi and Fantasy that's full of it.  Science, I mean.


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