Foxes After The Blizzard P1 (Trail Cam Results)

 I put my two trail cameras up at my school on the 30th. That night, I was worried I would miss getting footage of the fox kits. In February, Red Fox vixens consider and pick between multiple pre-dug den sites to give birth in. My concern is that I would put my cam on the wrong den just like I did last year, and get zero photos of the kits. It would be great to watch and write about the young foxes growing up. There is one den with two entrances by the athletic field, along with a straight part of the river, while the other is closer to the parking lot. Whichever den gets the most fox activity will receive most of my attention in April when the kits are being raised. These are the images from the den I'm going to be calling "Den 2"...

^ The female investigates my scent

So the fox pair are definitely still considering the den. In the first two photos above, The timeline suggests that it showed up only four hours after I had left, So it was probably smelling my boot tracks. I hope it ignores them. I don't want to affect their decision of where they will raise young. The vixen should be basing her birth location off of nothing but natural factors.

 I hope both the male and the female survive the deep snow, but they are probably starving right now, all small rodents, snakes, and plants are buried. Red Foxes have a technique that would be amazing to get photos of, where they launch up into the air and dive down to the bottom of the snow, where they try to snatch a mouse, shrew, or vole. Their hearing has to be extremely sensitive to register and pinpoint the exact inch where the prey is shuffling around.