THIS PAST SPRING we were fortunate to have a mother fox choose the slope leading up to Oak Tree park as a den site for her kits. We were able to look out our kitchen window and see the kits playing on the hillside when the mother allowed them out. They would sneak up on each other and stage mock attacks, rolling and tumbling in balls of red fur. Once the foliage began to thicken it was harder to see them but they'd still appear now and then. The den is still visible from the edge of Oak Tree park but the gang cleared out long ago. I wonder if we'll see any of them back this spring? This little beauty patrols on the Cornfield trail at all hours of the day and night. I last saw him/her sitting down on the trail around 7:30 am waiting for some squirrels to get hungry enough to venture out for the day.

Photo taken: January 23, 2020, Trail below Higgins Way and Moser Street and the adjacent cornfield.

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