Fox of the Day

Don't forget to visit the ever changing Fox of the Day which has a new fox photo every day.

For 2013 I'm also going to create a 'Photo of the Week' album, rather than a 365 album. Click the main image to see the full set, or the thumbnails for the most recent shots.

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  1. olsen350

    24 Jun 2006

    these are some great picture!

  2. Words

    2 Jul 2006

    Thanks! 🙂

  3. wickedlizard

    26 Jul 2006

    enjoyed your blog!!!

    enjoy:

  4. CaptainPenguin

    30 Sep 2006

    Great Fox shots that show these gorgeous creatures off at their best,I get to see and hear them in our street in the middle of winter nights but I've never managed a decent shot of them yet.

  5. anonymous

    12 Nov 2006

    wearejustlines writes:

    Great site. Love the fox. Where is it you live that you can have a fox as a neighbor?

  6. anonymous

    15 Nov 2006

    john writes:

    love the site and the wonderful pictures and videos of the foxes
    john

  7. Zoinks

    11 Feb 2007

    Cool pics 🙂

    I've lived in the countryside all my life and have never seen a fox! I need to move into town…..

  8. Embry Hallowed

    7 Mar 2007

    Amazingly fantastic! Now I wish I'd gotten some better pics of my squirrels! Completely wonderful album! I'm SO spotlighting this!

  9. christelharper

    7 Apr 2007

    So many great pictures of animals that we tend to take for granted in our stressed out, materialistic world! Many thanks for reminding us that the beauty is still out there and that we must take time to look at it before if vanishes.

  10. Words

    11 Apr 2007

    Embry, you can find that particular picture here. It's the pick of the bunch!

    And belated Happy Birthday.

  11. Embry Hallowed

    11 Apr 2007

    What was the fox of the day for March 21? That's my B-day! I hope it was a pretty one! 😛

  12. Embry Hallowed

    15 Apr 2007

    Awe!! Prettyful!!!! I wish I could raise a fox! I've raised about 20 squirrels though, and I wanna be a zoologist. You're ssooo lucky!!

  13. szbj

    28 May 2007

    It is lovely,but I like dog better.:D

  14. Embry Hallowed

    28 May 2007

    😛

  15. King Siren

    18 Jun 2007

    i really liked your pictures, thats awesome what you do!

  16. ashabot

    30 Jul 2007

    As always, stunning.

  17. hamdelyweblog

    4 Sep 2007

    sallam
    you have very nice blog
    can be a frind together?
    can add me to frind?

  18. hamdelyweblog

    6 Sep 2007

    love the site and the wonderful pictures and videos of the foxes
    john

  19. 火狐浏览器

    8 Oct 2007

    Very nice pictures!:up:

  20. RichardCooper

    20 Oct 2007

    You deserve a Spotlight

    Congrats 😀

  21. ArtemHP

    20 Jan 2008

    Thanks for blog, very good photos. Add it to favourite 😉
    You are the first person who wrote in my blog, will remeber you forever 😀

  22. Words

    20 Jan 2008

    Artem, no problem! Thanks 😀

  24. ~Keilarina~

    17 Apr 2008

    You have so many amazing photos… thank You for sharing, i recognised some of them from Your photos…

    all best…Peace!!

  25. michaeljung

    27 Apr 2008

    hi

    wonderful photos you got here, do you also do stock photography?

    Michael

  26. Words

    27 Apr 2008

    Michael, no I haven't looked at stock photography. It's a very comptetive market, but good luck with what you do.

  27. anonymous

    19 Jul 2008

    jen writes:

    i've been enjoying your blog for a couple years now. i wanted to say i hope you never stop posting all your wonderful photos and stories. i really, really enjoy what you do. thank you. 🙂

  28. anonymous

    6 Oct 2008

    Liz writes:

    Hi,

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    23 Oct 2008

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  30. mylillie

    16 Feb 2009

    great

  31. Words

    13 Oct 2009

    Thanks, and welcome to My Opera 😀

  32. T-G

    9 Jan 2010

    Have been away from the net for many..too many months.

    Notice you and your photos are better than ever.

    I thought the side marks on the vixen may have been from a hot auto exhaust. Wonder if fox ever spend time under cars for engine warmth.

    Too bad about the frogs. Similar to the mass failure of bee colonies. Bee hives are trucked by tractor rig around North America to pollinate crops where honey bees have vanished. Very expensive.

    Family groups travel parts of China pollinating orchards with feathers on sticks. Insecticides have been far too powerful. Many municipalities are passing bylaws to limit toxic chemical use on lawns.

    You probably read all about this. Rough on birds too I suspect. They eat the bugs that carry our chemicals.

    There's a delightful photo treat waiting for you on an Opera blog named 'Desert Dreams'

    http://my.opera.com/zenya/blog/

    An autistic youth has provided a PPS [Power Point] grouping of photos that rival National Geographic. The walrus and gorilla portraits are knockouts. Some Ansel Adams quality works also.

    You will enjoy 'Arabian Horses'/music and 'China' as well.

    Love those fox..and now your birds too! Tony [T-G]

  33. Words

    9 Jan 2010

    Hi Tony, long time no see. Good to see you back here!

  34. hörnchen

    13 Jan 2010

    Fine Page 😀
    DIRK.

  35. anonymous

    1 Feb 2010

    Sharon writes:

    Tranquil, life affirming and absorbing site – love it!! Many thanks!

  36. Words

    2 Feb 2010

    Thanks Sharon!

  37. anonymous

    6 Jul 2010

    Janet writes:

    PEI foxes may be back in business.
    field next to house. Three foxes following but hide in grass if I get near with golf cart. They have no problem, however, of trotting along just inches from the tractor. They love hunting for mice in the new mown hay.

    July 1
    Tom finished mowing both fields by house. Called kit kit to foxes and they looked at me as if I was stupid.

    July 2
    Early morning: Dusty, dirty clay fox tracks on the driveway. They came right up to the deck and perhaps to the house for all we know. Deck doesn’t show tracks like the driveway does.

    Afternoon: Tom mowing back fields. Have to sets of foxes. An adult and 2 kits still hunting in the field next to the house and a very blond adult and 2 kits following the tractor in the back fields. Thought I’d try my luck with the back-field-foxes and called kit kit and left some fruit loops.

    July 3
    Fruit loops gone. Placed some crumbled leftover burned hamburger in a bare place just past the brook. Then decided to make a second ‘social place’ at the top of the hill by the pine plantation in back of the house. The crows won’t go into the pine woods but the foxes love it there. I tossed bits of bread just under the pine trees.

    July 4
    Oh my gosh . . . at the feeding place by the brook a fox has left me a “present”. At least the spot has been duly marked. Obviously a young fox by the size of the scat. Left some bread bits and several small milk bone broken in half. Left same at pine plantation. Called kit kit at the top of my lungs at both places.

    July 5
    Very hot and humid today. It’s Tom’s birthday and we are going to a family dinner so went back in the heat of the afternoon. No surprise I didn’t see anyone at either site. But joy of joys, another “present” left just 3” from yesterday’s find by the brook. Another juvie by the size of it. I think we have made contact. Left fruit loops in both places.

    July 6
    Wanted to watch Netherlands and Uruguay in the World Cup so went back about 4:00. Figured I could miss the first 30 minutes of the game. As I was going down the hill before the brook, a little fox head peeked up out of the grass half-way down. It jumped into the lane and started racing for the brook. I called kit kit at the top of my lungs. The fox stopped, looked back at me, and then continued its sprint. As it got to the brook it went into the brush. I called kit kit and continued across the brook to the bare spot/feeding site. I had steak fat from last night’s dinner as well as ¼ slice of bologna cut up. I distributed some of it at the site, called kit kit several times, and drove about 300 feet away, turn the car around so I could watch the spot. While I was turning around the fox appeared from the brush and was eating the treats I had left. It kept an eye on the car but didn’t seem terribly nervous. After it had eaten what was there, it melted into the brush by the brook. I started the car and drove past the spot and left 4 more finger-nail sized pieces of bologna and then drove around the field and circled into the next field. By the time I got to where the blackberry bushes are, I had an excellent vision of “the spot” and could see the fox was back at the feeding site. It obviously finished what was there and wanted more. It looked long and hard at the car and finally trotted away.

    Can it be that after a dearth of 4 years I’ll have foxes to play with again

  38. anonymous

    8 Jul 2010

    Anonymous writes:

    July 7
    Whoopee . . . fresh scat left at the site. No sighting today.

    July 8
    Morning: Tom finished mowing the back field. The fox with the dusty hips and black throat and chest was following the tractor. I called kit kit and it looked at me without fear, but continued to search the grass for mice. Just after I left Tom said it arced high in the air with the typical fox-pounce and came up with a mouse. It promptly sat down and ate it’s fill of it.
    Evening: Found fresh scat at the feeding site. It’s beginning to look like the fox post office (or public bathroom.) At least they are polite. Left some bologna and called kit kit. Looked in the back field and there was a black-faced kit roaming up and down the piles of cut hay looking for mice. I called kit kit and it started toward me but got distracted. I went to the entrance of the loop road and called kit kit and it seemed interested. I threw out a little piece crust of bread and a few cheerios and drove around the loop road. Rather than go on into the woods, I turned down the short road and came down between the back fields next to the hedge row. I could see the fox looking for the cheerios at the entrance to the loop road. Meanwhile, no one but a blue jay showed up at the feeding site. I reversed my previous round and went up thru the short road and back to the field via the loop road. When I got to the edge of the field, the fox was about 1/3 of the way into the field. I called kit kit – and by golly – it started toward me. Walked very casually, stopped once or twice, but each time I called kit kit it came closer. When it got about 20 feet away, I heard a bark and the fox jumped into the woods.
    If that wasn’t enough, coming back to the house another fox pup was running in front of me and went to an old feeding site; one I used 4 years ago. Coincidence? Or is the info passed down?
    I called kit kit and left some cheerios and drove to the spot I was using THIS year. Sure ‘nuff, by the time I left a few bits of bologna and called kit kit, the fox was peeking out from under the trees waiting for me to leave. This fox obviously knew what kit kit means but it was nearly so bold as the pup on the other side of the brook.

  39. anonymous

    9 Jul 2010

    Janet writes:

    July 9 – no sightings.

  40. svata9

    7 Aug 2010

    Beautiful blog,I am enjoyng looking at your blog….very nice..

  41. Adonisali

    11 Oct 2010

    Very special (shocking and stunning) . I am Gratefull 2 to my.o that you can share this with us. I have not more words to express this feelings yet.

  42. samoht1

    12 Nov 2010

    Hi Words. The fox of the day 7 of November are a wonderfull shoot. May I download it for strictly personal use?

  43. Words

    13 Nov 2010

    Thomas, personal use is fine.

  44. samoht1

    22 Nov 2010

    Thanks Words 😀

    I noticed you have © in your exif. I tryed to do the same, but no luck. Can you you give a hint how to do that?

    I unfortunatly have had my pics nikked….

  45. Words

    22 Nov 2010

    Thomas, it's an option in Photoshop Elements (I'm using version 6, but it will be the same with alter versions). You can add copyright info under File -> File Info. What's handy is that you can define the text/information and pick it from a drop down so it takes a second. You can also add it automatically when you take the photos off the camera (But I use different software for that, so that option isn't available to me). I suspect there are others ways to edit the exif info, but Photoshop does make it easy. My photos still get misused, and many web uploads delete the data anyway so it's not a perfect solution.

  46. samoht1

    27 Nov 2010

    Words, thanks for your adwice :up:

    PhotoShop is nice but expensive, will scim the market for a freeware option

    I also add copyright to my photos, it takes just a few seconds using Irfan 🙂

    In Denmark you see Fox extremely rare, you are lucky to have them in your backyard !

  47. samoht1

    28 Nov 2010

    I found a freeware exif program that adds copyright fast. Wont write the name here as it offcause also can be missused!

  48. Adonisali

    29 Nov 2010

    oh come on, they might find it just while you mention this. And then the original file is older.

  49. kriegana

    10 Nov 2011

    Cool photo album

  50. mozila

    12 Mar 2012

    Very nice photos :up:

  51. film-online

    13 Jul 2012

    :spock:

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