This a first for me. A Texas Gray fox near home. What a beautiful specimen, I mean I had never seen one before outside a zoo. It reminds me of the time I saw a female coyote guarding her two pups. (I wrote about it, and actually the photo at the tittle of this blog is exactly where I encountered the momma coyote.)
This past mid-September riding my bike on Eleanor Ave, I saw the silhouette of what looked like a furred animal. At first I think that we both starled each other and stop at the same time, it was about to cross the street 20 to 25 feet ahead of me. We eye each other and as I fumbled with my pockets looking for my iPod Touch (with which I like to take photos of just about everything I encounter during my outings and sojourns), all the time I was searching in my brain for what could that be, It was not a cat because it had a small head, pointy ears and a long and fluffy tail, it was not a dog either, a coyote maybe? Nay, I have seen coyotes up close, damm it! the tail is agive away but my brain works slow these days, as I kept brainstorming (all in a matter of one and a half minutes approximately, it turned around and did one of those jump-and-dive motion as seen in old cartoons. And as I saw that, bingo! it's a fox I told myself. But then I second guessed myself and didn't tell anybody. I was not sure that a Fox would have an habitat in this populated area. When it jumped up and dived under the chain link it went inside Fort Sam Houston, I thought well, maybe is a domesticated fox that escaped its owners and is just roaming around.
Well the day before yesterday, driving on my way to work, just before 7AM, in the dawn of the day, I saw it again and this time I saw it clearly. Lo and behold, the Texas Gray Fox in all its magnificence was just trotting on the outside the same fence parallel to the road, as I saw it, I pulled to the side to try to take a picture but while the fox seem not to be in a hurry and oblivious to my presence just a few feet away, it took too long for my phone to get it ready for snapping pictures and I did click on the shutter at the last moment. It's barely distinguishable but it's my proof.
That was an exciting experience, just as it is when I am in exploratory mode riding my bike in paths not so beaten. Feeling in touch with mother nature and the beauty of the creation.
I'm going to include a picture not mine, found in the net, for demonstration purposes for now.
This past mid-September riding my bike on Eleanor Ave, I saw the silhouette of what looked like a furred animal. At first I think that we both starled each other and stop at the same time, it was about to cross the street 20 to 25 feet ahead of me. We eye each other and as I fumbled with my pockets looking for my iPod Touch (with which I like to take photos of just about everything I encounter during my outings and sojourns), all the time I was searching in my brain for what could that be, It was not a cat because it had a small head, pointy ears and a long and fluffy tail, it was not a dog either, a coyote maybe? Nay, I have seen coyotes up close, damm it! the tail is agive away but my brain works slow these days, as I kept brainstorming (all in a matter of one and a half minutes approximately, it turned around and did one of those jump-and-dive motion as seen in old cartoons. And as I saw that, bingo! it's a fox I told myself. But then I second guessed myself and didn't tell anybody. I was not sure that a Fox would have an habitat in this populated area. When it jumped up and dived under the chain link it went inside Fort Sam Houston, I thought well, maybe is a domesticated fox that escaped its owners and is just roaming around.
Well the day before yesterday, driving on my way to work, just before 7AM, in the dawn of the day, I saw it again and this time I saw it clearly. Lo and behold, the Texas Gray Fox in all its magnificence was just trotting on the outside the same fence parallel to the road, as I saw it, I pulled to the side to try to take a picture but while the fox seem not to be in a hurry and oblivious to my presence just a few feet away, it took too long for my phone to get it ready for snapping pictures and I did click on the shutter at the last moment. It's barely distinguishable but it's my proof.
That was an exciting experience, just as it is when I am in exploratory mode riding my bike in paths not so beaten. Feeling in touch with mother nature and the beauty of the creation.
I'm going to include a picture not mine, found in the net, for demonstration purposes for now.
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| Texas Gray Fox on the prowl. |
