{"id":7154,"date":"2021-11-22T12:24:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T18:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=7154"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:24:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T18:24:27","slug":"red-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/22\/red-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spotted a red fox under the apple tree in the back yard this morning. At first I thought it was a large cat, but then it turned its face toward the window. Definitely a fox. Looked very much like the one in the picture below, but I did not catch it on my camera. (This picture is from the internet.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"322\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Red-Fox.jpg?resize=474%2C322&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Red-Fox.jpg?w=888&amp;ssl=1 888w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Red-Fox.jpg?resize=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Red-Fox.jpg?resize=768%2C522&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We suspect that the fox was interested in the birds around our bird feeders. (We recently added a few bird feeders out near the apple tree.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other recent wildlife updates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>There are active moles tunneling under the yard in various areas. <\/li><li>Plenty of hawks and bald eagles who, along with the owls, are probably snacking on the moles.<\/li><li>On the evening of Halloween, I was startled by a <em>huge<\/em> stag crossing the street in front of our house. It was the biggest animal I had seen in the wild in a long time.<\/li><li>Turkeys continue to march around the yard a few times each day. They have been managing to flap up into the crab apple trees to eat the little apples.<\/li><li>Piper was recently excited to discover the remains of a deer by the trail.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Deer-rib-cage.jpeg?resize=474%2C632&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Deer-rib-cage-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Deer-rib-cage-scaled.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Deer-rib-cage-scaled.jpeg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Deer-rib-cage-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Deer-rib-cage-scaled.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Deer-rib-cage-scaled.jpeg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Deer-rib-cage-scaled.jpeg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>See also two earlier posts: <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/01\/battle-creek-wildlife\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"7062\">Battle Creek Wildlife<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/04\/wildlife-update\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"7112\">Wildlife Update<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted a red fox under the apple tree in the back yard this morning. At first I thought it was a large cat, but then it turned its face toward the window. Definitely a fox. Looked very much like the one in the picture below, but I did not catch it on my camera. (This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/22\/red-fox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Red Fox<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,54],"tags":[100,51,96],"class_list":["post-7154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew","category-photo","tag-house","tag-pictures","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7161,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions\/7161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}