fox

[darkoshi]

I saw a fox today while doing my lunchtime walk. It was crossing the street, looking in the other direction. It was the size of a cat and rather skinny looking, but the head and tail were definitely fox and not cat. The fur on its back had a reddish tinge. Once it noticed me, it scampered away into the brush between the trees.

I think that's the first time I've ever seen a fox in the wild (although not sure one can call that "in the wild").

Unless I've seen a fox there at work before, and have forgotten... that's part of the reason I post here about those kind of sightings, so I'll have a record of it.

Comments

[redsixwing]

Fox! \o/

[lhexa]

Nice! They may have been a gray fox or another small breed.

[darkoshi]

It seemed to me like the reddish coloring was mostly along the spine, with the rest of the coat more greyish/dusky looking. Whereas the photos I see of gray foxes have the back all gray and the reddish parts in other sections.

This photo best matches what I thought I saw:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCppell's_fox
But that kind of fox isn't in North America, so that couldn't be.
Maybe it was just the way the light was falling that made it look that way.

[lhexa]

Many fox species have wide variations in coloration, so there's not much likelihood of narrowing it down.