The Silver Fox

Back in April I came across a silver fox when I was hiking up the backside of Castle Hill in Placentia.

I just learned that a silver fox is really a Red Fox with a coat color variation. "..Red foxes that are more brown and darker than red are known as "cross foxes". Red foxes that are black are called "silver foxes"." (Newfoundland and Labrador Fisheries and Resources website)

I was even quick enough to get a video!

The Red Fox diet consists mainly of small mammals (such as voles, lemmings, squirrels, hares, rabbits, and mice) in fall and winter and is augmented in Spring with nesting waterfowl and in summer with berries and plants. They are also known to eat young birds, eggs and lake trout.

Here is a rock I painted of the silver fox, and an otter too.

Hoping to get around to those posts I keep promising...now that summer is really here the days are flying by too quickly!