Blog Stew with Courting Foxes

A pair of gray foxes.

As we move further into winter, the foxes are becoming noisy at night. Maybe this is a courting pair. The scout camera was not more than 150 yards from the house for this photo, but in 18 years I have personally seen a gray fox exactly once. They are that stealthy. (Red foxes are much more likely to show themselves.)

Some other interesting links:

• Chad Love finds a link between sea monkeys and casinos. I never sent away for sea monkeys myself—but somewhere I still have my 50¢ baking powder-powered submarine.
• Further up the Front Range, KB has a good collection of scout camera photos showing activity around a bear den. His bears have better manners than ours.
•  Is this really the first book on deer hunting that does not show antlers on the cover? It might well be! 
• While still dubious about its stated purpose, Galen Geer re-thinks his local hunting club's annual predator hunt. 
• The "most dangerous game"? Boar-hunting in Tunisia.