 Deer startled |
 and bolts |
 Red fox |
The wildlife high for the day started when a deer I was watching suddenly whirled and bolted. Five others did the same. I looked to see what scared them. Saw nothing. Looked out other windows. Nothing. Then below a window, movement—a fox. Was it the shy fox or the trusting, limping fox? It looked up at me with a fetching face, It had to be the one I know. He kept looking. I hurried to get his expected treat. I came back and started cranking open the window that was not part of our usual routines. He moved back. I dropped a piece of bologna, but he didn’t come. When I wasn’t looking, he disappeared. But he had let me know he was okay, and I was glad to see him.
Across the lake, a good layer of insulating snow on the beaver lodge is helping keep the below zero temperatures at bay.
Thank you for all you do,
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center