Category Archives: fox

Red Fox Family Update with New ‘Tippy’ Photos

Tippy, the little runt of the litter with the crooked nose, is still in the area. I saw him (or her?) once in August running across the road. That distinctive face is easy to recognize.
Last week, I thought I saw one of Tippy’s siblings running by on the hillside. I haven’t seen the mother fox [...]

fox kits update

For those of you who have been asking about ‘Tippy’ and the rest of the fox family, I went over to the home where they have taken over the back deck and captured a few images on June 12th. Mother and kits are still calling the space under the deck home, romping, grooming, and hunting [...]

grooming

Tippy holds very still for ear cleaning. Mother has big teeth! Sometimes, Tippy squeals in protest at all the grooming his mother does to him. The first image is a crop to show a close up of the big tooth. The one below is the full image. Image capture at 1/160 sec at f/8, ISO [...]

Tippy

1/640 sec at f/5.6, ISO 200, focal length 300mm, cropped
Here’s Tippy, the runt of the litter of fox kits born under my friends’ back porch. Watching through the windows as the three kits play, this little one has captured my friends’ hearts and earned a name. He limps a bit, has a crooked nose, and [...]

This Evening’s Hummer, Yesterday’s Fox

This broad-tail hummingbird’s image was captured just after sunset this evening as he sat on a choke cherry branch with ponderosa boughs in the background. The late afternoon rain left everything dripping and the clouds reflected nice colors long after sunset. Shot at 1/250 sec, f/6.3, ISO 400, with 70-300mm lens at 300mm.
Yesterday morning I [...]

Kits, Hummingbirds, and Spring

Spring has finally pushed winter aside. Fox kits are emerging from their dens, hummingbirds are fighting over feeders and wax currant flowers, and raindrops are replacing snowflakes. Just over a week ago, we had a foot of snow with phone and power outages (again!) and ice on the windshields last Monday morning. But now, the [...]