Sleepy red fox

I mentioned recently how much I miss regularly seeing bald eagles as I did in Virginia. If there is anything I miss more, it’s regularly seeing foxes, which I love, love, love. In Virginia we had only red foxes. California has both native gray foxes and non-native red foxes, which were introduced for their fur years ago. Red foxes are considered a nuisance here because they prey on a couple different endangered native species. While I am extremely sensitive to endangered species and I GET the problem with non-native species, I am going to tell you something that may make me seem like a bad person: I think red foxes are more beautiful than gray foxes. The only non-captive gray foxes I have seen so far were so far away they barely count, and I assure you than when and if I am able to better photograph a gray fox, I will be super excited, but I really do miss Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia where if I timed my visit right, I almost ALWAYS saw a (non-controversial, there) red fox and every single time it made me SO HAPPY. So although some people regard the red foxes at Hayward Shoreline to be a “problem”, I have been hoping to get a glimpse of one. My hopes were realized beyond my wildest dreams when I came across this fox sleeping maybe 100 feet from me. Although he was fully aware I was there, too, he let me photograph him for 40 MINUTES. No fox in Occoquan EVER did that!

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You can’t tell me this isn’t one of the most beautiful animals in the world:
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