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I'm not interested in hunting one, I just saw one today and was wondering if someone knew what it was. Looked like this:
http://www.caninest.com/images/grey-fox.jpg
Image says it is a gray fox. I saw him up in the Pawnee Grasslands. I've seen him hiding in a 6-8" plastic pipe more than once over the last 2-ish years. Today when I looked, he bolted out of the pipe without me even doing anything. In the past I've picked the pipe up and shook it around and he just stayed in there.
Also, a bird got trapped in the bunkhouse. It took us a good 20 minutes to flush him out. I actually caught it twice. The first time with a box, but it flew out when I reached in. At some point, while flying back and forth, it landed on my back and sat there for ten seconds. The second time I grabbed it in mid-air, but when I loosened my hand to take a picture, it jumped out of my hand and flew away. Except it flew back to the top of the roof, still inside, and we had to start chasing it all over again. From looking it up, the closest I can come up with is a White-breasted Nuthatch.
http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/362..._Nuthatch.aspx
http://identify.whatbird.com/img/4/5...age.aspx?x=322
Anyone have any idea if these are up in Pawnee?
Not impossible there but a Gray Fox would be out of it's expected habitat on the Northeastern prairie. Check out the Swift Fox as it is the common fox of the Pawnee. Very cool critters, not many people get to see them.
Here's the most common fox in Colorado, a Red Fox I watched foraging along the road side along the Peak-to-Peak above Raymond during the flood last month.
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ps5892a68a.jpg
White-breasted Nuthatches would be in areas of the Pawnee where there are trees. Like other cavity nesting birds they often investigate openings, holes or broken windows in buildings, and sometimes become trapped, unable to find their way out. I've seen many instances where nuthatches, chickadees, bluebirds and woodpeckers find a way into a shed or garage and die because they can't find the way back out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Looked it up. It was 100% a Swift Fox. Thanks for the tip. He was pretty cool to see outside that pipe for once.
As far as the bird, there really aren't any trees for a few miles. Some structures though.
Foxes are pretty neat, used to regularly see a vixen red fox with her litter in a culvert near my house.
We see the local Red fox family about once a month as there is a den in an embankment in the far corner of our place they use for a week or so as they pass thru and a Swift fox pair lives to the west of us a couple miles in a Plum thicket. When we keep the coyote population down we see more foxes. The foxes do a better job of controlling the rabbit population.
So I plan on trying to call some coyotes in this winter on the same piece of land. Will the fox's presence be an issue? I can't imagine that tiny fox is keeping coyotes away.
No issue. Foxes are prey for coyotes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Fox are cool. never had much of an interest in hunting or killing them. now if I get a big game room some day and a bunch of mounts, it would be cool to mount one in the air in punce mode on a mouse or something.
We watch for them on the weekends in the winter, just after dawn, 8-12 inches of snow. Hunting mice under the snow, they jump up and nose dive into the snow, wiggle around for a few seconds and pop up with a mouse.Quote:
Originally Posted by sniper7
We have these all over here. One vixen has laid claim to the culvert running under our driveway and every spring we get to watch the kits grow. Fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hummer
And yes, we feed them.
Saw the common orange fox last night, and again first thing this morning at my house.
Two years ago, we had a neighborhood red fox with a leather fetish. We often found boots, gloves, footballs, and small scraps of leather in the back of the property where she and the kits hung out.
One day, I came home from work and saw them playing in the back yard. I watched for a while and then saw the momma pick up a shoe from the tall grass. I looked back at my shoes lined up in the mud room, and sure enough, it was one of mine. I ran out yelling and waving, and she dropped it as the family scattered. We then stopped leaving the sliding door cracked open for the cat.
Cute critters, but sly little bastards.
They often "bark" at our cat when the cat is on the front porch after dark. One of the strangest sounds I've heard from an animal.
FYI, a descent sized live trap (coon size) and some cat food (or leather glove) will bring them in. Foxes and chickens don't mix, so someone had to go.
[QUOTE=Irving;1369557]I'm not interested in hunting one, I just saw one today and was wondering if someone knew what it was. Looked like this:
http://www.caninest.com/images/grey-fox.jpg
Also known as a Kit Fox but if it is a Kit fox who puts them together?