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I didn't hunt alone yesterday evening either...
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11/12/20 10:23 PM
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Movement caught my attention about sundown yesterday evening. Not thirty yards from me, a young grey fox (not much bigger than a kit) was gingerly climbing into a small mesquite to reach the hackberries next door. All my adult life I've pondered what purpose the Almighty might have had for creating something as worthless as a hackberry. At least now I know one reason...to provide an appetizer for a fox before he left on his nightly search for "field mouse tartar"! Mark
"I always take care to fire into the nearest hillside and, lacking that, into darkness". - the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
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Re: I didn't hunt alone yesterday evening either...
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11/12/20 10:28 PM
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Cool pics! I saw one in the middle of Lubbock last night about 8:30, trotting through a neighborhood. They're neat animals.
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11/12/20 11:26 PM
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11/13/20 02:15 AM
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11/13/20 08:01 AM
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Love those little guys. We have one show up in our back yard a couple months ago. I hope he sticks around
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11/13/20 11:29 AM
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Always neat to see mother natures creatures doing what they do
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11/13/20 07:45 PM
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Cool little creatures. Some of our guys like to shoot them “To save the turkeys,” but I enjoy watching them. Had one one time sit not 10 yards outside my deer blind and continued to watch me for a good 20 min. Maybe it was the peanut butter crackers
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11/13/20 08:31 PM
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They are very cool little dogs. I spent about an hour with one at a tower site way back in the New Hampshire woods. I just sat on the steps and he hunted the clearing where we parked the truck for mice. He knew I was there but pretty much paid me no mind.
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11/13/20 09:02 PM
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Maybe it was the peanut butter crackers Always a possibility!
"I always take care to fire into the nearest hillside and, lacking that, into darkness". - the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
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11/13/20 09:06 PM
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They are very cool little dogs. I spent about an hour with one at a tower site way back in the New Hampshire woods. I just sat on the steps and he hunted the clearing where we parked the truck for mice. He knew I was there but pretty much paid me no mind. Fox are a pretty independent lot, that's certain. I saw this one the next morning as well...he had to have winded me given the direction he came from. Gave me a good, general ignoring. Dissed by a small canid. If I gave it some thought, I might have my feelings hurt... Nah.
"I always take care to fire into the nearest hillside and, lacking that, into darkness". - the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
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11/15/20 01:47 AM
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11/15/20 08:39 PM
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They love pecans,I live next to a creek in town and had two would come up during the day and eat pecans.
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11/15/20 09:03 PM
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Cool little creatures. Some of our guys like to shoot them “To save the turkeys,” but I enjoy watching them. Had one one time sit not 10 yards outside my deer blind and continued to watch me for a good 20 min. Maybe it was the peanut butter crackers I like them too
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11/16/20 12:04 AM
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There was a grey fox that lived in the Red Raiders stadium.
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11/16/20 12:14 PM
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I had 3 walk thru my food plot Thursday morning and we also have one that stays by our cabin and eats our scraps at night.
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11/19/20 02:53 AM
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Should help keep the rats and mice down a bit also.
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11/19/20 10:57 AM
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11/19/20 07:42 PM
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I have trouble in the thermal telling if they are young yotes or foxes. Unfortunately, it's kept me from pulling the trigger twice.
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11/21/20 03:58 PM
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Energy company I worked for maintained a house in Jal NM for us corporate folks to stay in while working in the area. For 4 - 5 years there was a fox that lived under the storage shed. We'd see him pretty often while grilling or just sitting in the back tipping a few bears. Often he would come out and hop on top of the storage building and just watch us until twilight, then he was off hunting.
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11/27/20 04:57 PM
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