January At The Fox Den (Trail Cam Results)

 I picked up the Sl122 pro today. This time i tried my camera's "Video and Photo" mode, not knowing how exactly it works. As it turns out, it snaps a photo, then takes a 15 second video every time it detects motion. This actually meant I had lots of videos and photos of squirrels, which i deleted. Unfortunately, I only got night time photos, unlike in my second post where you can see the orange of their fur. I am very happy though to have my first ever videos of foxes...

In the video above, I was startled when as the fox trots off into the darkness, it screams. If you haven't already, crank up your device's volume, and then re-watch. That was my first time ever using the audio from my camera. Fox screams are mostly used to communicate with mates (which im getting this was an example of), and courtship. I also heard distant dog barking throughout the videos, so it may be trying to secure it's territory, instinctually perceiving the dog as a wolf, or coyote.

                                In that one, the fox is probably sniffing at me and my friend's tracks

                . . . January is right in the PEAK of red fox mating season. Young foxes who left their parent's territory in August are now competing to start their own territories, in between the territories of adult mated pairs like the one im talking about. Female foxes go into heat for about one week during the winter, in that time, all the males in the area can smell that they are ready to be impregnated. Males can actually only produce sperm in winter, because it's useless when the females arent in heat.

Next Month, the female might be pregnant. Vixens give birth in March, so stay tunes for possible videos of little fox kits wrestling.