We have a gray fox den on our land. The gray foxes are mostly nocturnal but we do occasionally catch them on camera in the day. We've never spotted one in person as they are very shy. We have a good idea where the den is but leave the area alone as we don't want to harass them. We don't have any red foxes.
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I would try and post pictures of my backyard groundhog, but man...that thing is dumb, uninteresting, and depressingly urban, haha.
anyway. I did have to comment because I did catch 2 grey foxes in the same backyard, about 3 years ago, early morning. It was the strangest thing because it took me hours to sit down and figure out what it was, haha. Because they had that cat-dog-racoon-wrong-time of day-and-stature-and just weird way it pauses and looks. Pretty clear a fox to me, but I just assumed young red fox. jubi coat. seemed appropriate, time of year. ....which is when I then learned that the typical red fox actually doesn't have a juvi coat. it just looks like a miniature adult (As in [DHT]Osiris's pics above).
Then discovered the grey fox in my little catalogue and sure as shit, that's what it was. Only minutes though, so no thought to go grab a camera. I just like to observe, anyway. Never saw them again. A few turkeys, also, same back yard. Crazy, because it's pretty much city back here but there are some swampy areas, so the wildlife still gets through. Can hear the coyotes pretty regularly, but I've sure as shit not seen one. I don't expect I will)
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