Looking out the window

[Johnsfolly]

At our old place, we would get a couple of reds interested in our chickens every Feb/Mar as the males were roaming for mates. One year one got a little too interested and now we have a fox tail😉

[ness]

I miss having them around. I used to love seeing a ball of rabbit or squirrel fur laying on the ground.

We had a sickly coyote hanging around behind our fence, under our neighbor's deck. etc. a couple years back. I was glad when he disappeared! One of the neighborhood internet wildlife sleuths decided it was probably a jackal   

[Terrierman]

11 hours ago, BilletHead said:

               Not looking like it. 

  American red fox - Wikipedia

Well live and learn.  Thanks.

[tjm]

I always knew that gray fox could climb trees, but had ever realized how well until a number of years ago; on a trapping forum one of the members had been photographing bald eagles and in editing a photo of an eagle  perched in a large tree discovered that just a few feet below the eagle was a gray fox asleep on a large limb. It must have been 30'-40' off the ground and looked comfortable there.

My guess is that ability to climb is why they do better with coyotes than red fox do. Aided in climbing by their claws that are curved and I have read semi-retractable. I've also read that they can rotate their forearms to aid in climbing limbless tree trunks up to 50'.