This is what was in my front yard yesterday afternoon............

[mtdoramike]

I threw out Tiki's food to give her fresh food and it seems that it attracted a local fox. As you can see, he's shedding his winter coat. He came from a vacant field across the street. He kept darting across the road when ever a car would pass. So I fixed him up a care package of a variety of food and placed it over in the field hoping to keep him in the field. I hate feeding wild animals, but I didn't want to see him get ran over by a car either.

 

[Betrisher]

That's exactly what I'd've done too, Mike! Poor little guy - he's so skinny! Foxes are pests here in Oz and so everyone's out to kill them, which is so sad. There's a family of them that lives in the storm water drain about a block away from our place and once in a blue moon, we'll see one hunting rodents and insects on the roadside verge. They're so beautiful: they remind me of fairy creatures with their long, slender legs and knowing golden eyes. I think I might also manage to drop a care package up in the drain some time over the weekend...

 

[JerseyWendy]

Well done, Mike! I love foxes, especially the red ones.

Now I wonder what winter coat this one is blowing...with your lack of....winter. :09:

 

[getwozzy]

What a cute little guy!!!!

 

[Allee]

I bet he appreciated the care package. Very nice of you. Foxes are considered pests in Texas too. Ranchers and hunters have tried to wipe them out, thankfully Texas still has miles of brush country where they still thrive.

 

[Birdman666]

He looks like he's starving. You can see his ribs!

 

[mtdoramike]

He looks like he's starving. You can see his ribs!

Yeah, I imagine he is especially for him to come out in daylight into the yard fighting traffic just to get some nuts, sprouts, seeds, beans, peas and corn with a couple of pieces of pizza crust that Tiki didn't eat.

I went back this morning and found that the care package was gone. It was a mixture of beans, peas, corn and some left over chicken. I don't know how many foxes are living in the vacant field, but back about 10 years ago there were 3 living in a fox hole. I might have to prepare another care package for them just to keep them in the field and not in the road. But Florida frowns on feeding wildlife.

 

[Betrisher]

Australia frowns on it too, but I don't mind a bit of positive discrimination when it comes to an animal in obvious distress. Maybe you could 'lose' a few cans of nice, nourishing dogfood down there Mikey?

 

[jenphilly]

I think foxes are beautiful too... but they can be poor guests... we had a fox come right up into the barn where we had horses boarded years ago and snatch two barn kittens. But if no worries about something like that, I would also be inclined to feed them I put nuts out for the squirrels and all our not eaten bird food goes out to the birds. We joke we have the best fed wild birds in the area

And for the input of wild birds... they don't like Harrisons, but did like the fruity zupreem. We had a bag of zupreem that came home with one bird and it had been around for a while after we transitioned them over. So, sprinkled it around after one snow storm But the Harrisons was not nearly as much of a hit!!

 

[Birdman666]

I put nuts out for the squirrels and all our not eaten bird food goes out to the birds. We joke we have the best fed wild birds in the area

And for the input of wild birds... they don't like Harrisons, but did like the fruity zupreem. We had a bag of zupreem that came home with one bird and it had been around for a while after we transitioned them over. So, sprinkled it around after one snow storm But the Harrisons was not nearly as much of a hit!!

I don't feed the squirrels, but our wild birds get pretty well fed...

The biggest hit with the wild birds seems to be left over rice, and left over mashed potatoes...

Funny, the same thing that's among the biggest hits with our "non-wild" birds...

 

[thekarens]

I bet your do feed the squirrels...though unintentionally North American Tree Rats, as we call them, are forever stealing the seed out of our feeders.

 

[Birdman666]

I bet your do feed the squirrels...though unintentionally North American Tree Rats, as we call them, are forever stealing the seed out of our feeders.

I've got a hanging squirrel proof feeder...

Unfortunately, I do occasionally end up feeding my neighbor's cat every once in awhile. He's gotten one or two by ambushing the ground feeders cleaning up the crumbs under the feeder.

The squirrels avoid my place anyway, as my macaws get to play in the tree, and they are terrified of them... Just as a cat is a sport to a macaw... they can make a squirrel jump six feet straight up! Which is actually quite entertaining, for everyone except the squirrel...