{"id":93157,"date":"2020-12-30T05:32:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T12:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=93157"},"modified":"2020-12-30T08:45:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T15:45:54","slug":"rambunctious-red-fox-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/30\/rambunctious-red-fox-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Rambunctious Red Fox Kits"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I can’t get white this time of year I’ll take green, especially when playful fox kits are part of the picture. I’m rapidly growing weary of browns and grays.<\/p>\n

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1\/1000, f\/10, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

In the late spring of 2010 I spent part of a delightful morning with sibling Red Fox kits at Bear River MBR. Their den was right along the edge of the auto tour road so the young pups were hard to miss when they were out and about.<\/p>\n

There were four of them but one was more shy than the others and spent less time out of the den. They were usually side lit but I still managed to get many photos of their antics that please me.<\/p>\n

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1\/1250, f\/10, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Typical of young canids they spent much of their time in play – pouncing on each other, wrestling and biting nearly everything and everyone in sight. Other than the sibling that spent most of its time in the den they paid me no nevermind as they frolicked in the spring greenery around the den entrance.<\/p>\n

I stayed in my pickup and they were obviously acclimated to vehicles on the refuge road right next to their den so they just went about their business of having fun.<\/p>\n

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1\/1000, f\/10, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This little guy kept trying to entice me into joining in the fun. ‘He’ repeatedly stalked me (or my pickup) and then play-charged at the end of the stalk – just like the siblings were constantly doing to each other. Here my shutter clicked just as he began a playful lunge in my direction.<\/p>\n

Encounters like this are a big part of the reason I’m a bird and nature photographer. Even if I come away without any decent photos they lift my spirits and make me feel good about the world again, if only briefly.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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