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Our home butts up against a hillside, so occasionally we get critters in our back yard. They don’t often linger, but this particular fox seemed utterly at home, apparently content to sit and enjoy the morning sun. I was moving from window to window, trying to snap photos as it strolled along…

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...and catching itself a snack for breakfast

Yeek. There was another squirrel chittering from the wire above as the fox nabbed and shook its prey. The fox’s fur was standing on end–you can see his tail has gone boosh–and the squirrel had just stopped struggling when I snapped the last photo. The fox then turned and trotted off into the hillside to enjoy its meal.

The squirrel on the wire climbed down and sniffed around the area where the attack had occurred. To investigate what happened? To remember the fox’s scent? Not sure, but it was all sort of sad.

The fox returned a while later, carrying a significantly smaller furry carcass in its mouth. Ewww…