Where'd the fox go?

Somewhere between 6:30 and 7:30 every morning for a couple weeks, a fox has walked past the back deck. It darts past, and back. It will dart around the outside edges of the green. I even see it one morning in the front of the building. And on another, on the other side of the fence, running near the apartment complexes retaining pond into the wooded area. Another resident a few buildings down says he saw it coming from the direction of the creek. I've walked along the creek. There are prints down that I can identify as "dog." I'm not familiar enough to identify fox from domestic. However, it would make sense that the fox is making a circle of the area. There is a small forested area between here and the gulf course. Maybe the fox has kits in a den there and each morning heads down to the creek and up through the condo buildings. There's lots of reasons to and over the next couple weeks, I think I may be right. The mother squirrel's babies go from four to two. There is a lone baby rabbit eating just off our deck every morning. There are three lone baby squirrels in front. Although, I witnessed the ravaging of their nest by a red-tailed hawk. Seeing them alone, I realize it was probably the mother that the hawk carried away. All those little songbirds tried so hard to shoo it away.
But, now there's no fox. Is it a balance? Has it headed off through the gulf course in order not to totally decimate the new spring population? Or, has it become a part of the food chain. My son suggests an owl. I look it up. That's actually possible, as are bears, wolves, badgers, eagles, and even humans.

הועלה ב-מאי 5, 2020 01:24 אחה"צ על ידי belled