Thanks to a friend alerting me to the den on her property, I had a chance to spend a short time recently with four fox kits. I spent 35 minutes in the evening seeing all 4, and then 19 minutes the next morning when 2 were visible outside the den. Below is a photo showing a kit standing near its den in the early morning dappled sunlight.
In the late afternoon visit the foxes were backlit. They playfully tussled…
…posed…
…fought…
…relaxed…
…and wandered through the near-by ferns.
They knew I was there but did not seem to mind. One had interesting green eyes. I cannot explain these. The fox was backlit, and I certainly did not use flash.
Below a trio interacts.
And then three of them got into a fight.
Here is the above fight extended.
The sequence below shows changing expressions during one second.
Below we see a relaxed fox scratching.
Here are some of the other photos I took of the fox kits.
