These guys stacked up like a cheer squad pyramid just for you!
Gimme an F–Gimme an O–Gimme an X–What’s that spell? FOX!!!
Category: Beyond the Olympic Peninsula
Nap time or play time…YES!
Mom was curled up near the den. The Kitts were still on play mode…
How many kitts do you see?
Lil Vixen
Some shots remind you that they are wild animals…This was quite the look thru my lens.
On the first day we were about to give up. All the foxes were way to far for us to photograph. We were starting to drive home when just to the right of our car (like 10 feet away) I saw this girl jogging along. I screamed STOP STOP STOP.
We shot these from our car window!
Black is the new red…
The foxes are usually Red or reddish/blond. But San Juan has a variation found in very few other places in the world..BLACK. This one caught a tasty fat mole.
THis is what MOST of a photographer’s images will look like. THe were generally from 300-500 feet away (If you were following the rules anyway!)
If you were patient they would sometimes come to you…Like the one on top.
She came so close my lens was too long to even get her whole body in the shot.
Grocery shopping…
It was pouring as you can see…but mom was on the hunt for one of the THOUSANDS of bunnies on the prairie. The foxes were intoduced onto the islad in the 1800’s to reduce the rabbit population that was decimating their crops.
Fox kitt playground
The kitts would run around and around this tree and stump.
This lil one was all by himself.
A WEEK of Foxes from San Juan Island
Sometimes you can’t tell the story in just one day. So this week I’m dedicating the entire week to the foxes of San Juan Island. It is just a day trip away from Sequim. Friends and I went up for the first time to see what all the fuss was about. Total cuteness–that’s what! Let me know which are your favorites…
The top photo was mom with the lil runt of the litter. This one was of two playing chase. THe one in the back was ALWAYS the trouble maker
When he tackled his sibling mom came over and scooted him off.
