TheBanyanTree: Foxeys

[Jeri Bates]

Marvelous! Thanks for sharing.

Jeri

On 7/17/2011 11:07 AM, Tom Smith wrote:
> I walk a couple miles pre-dawn, returning home just before
> daylight.  The stillness, silence and darkness deliciously
> heighten my senses.  I wear a yellow reflective vest and white
> cap and walk slightly to the left of the center of the streets.
> I always carry a camera, a cellphone, and a "Tactical Pen" in
> my shirt pocket, just in case..  This morning I walked through
> a closed park, detouring around a locked gate, through a wide
> opening in chain link fence in a creek-side hidden corner. By
> the time I got there my night-vision was fully operational.  I
> could make out three strands of barbwire running along the top
> of the fence, above the gaping hole I stepped upright through.
> I followed a well-worn and discernable path through dead wild
> oats and other native plant life.  For the first time in my
> experience, I encountered a fox or coyote in that park.  All I
> could make out was a silhouette, long, low and black, crossing
> the path ahead and climbing a rise to the right.  Then another
> followed the first one.  When I reached the point these
> critters crossed the path I looked in the direction they had
> gone and saw one of them looking back at me.  I reached for the
> digital camera and turned it on, but by that time, my fellow
> interloper in the park had disappeared.  Camera still in hand,
> I figured, what the heck, I'll take a picture anyhow, just for
> memory sake.  The flash reflected two bright eyes between long
> pointed ears looking back at me.  What a delight!  What a
> delight to have this beautiful animal more curious than afraid
> of me.
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> Image at http://www.flickr.com/photos/9482738@N07/5946593813/
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