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[va-richmond-general] Re: Sunday birding and fox question

From: "Michael Shapiro" <sc.tanager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 18:45:10 -0500

I've seen pictures of Gray Foxes that had quite a bit of red on them. Never
heard anything about them hybridizing (one way or the other).

Michael Shapiro
Short Pump

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From: "ben saunders" <betsyben@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 6:10 PM
Subject: [va-richmond-general] Sunday birding and fox question


>           The gulls are coming!  We saw thousands of gulls on the James
> from the bluff at Chipoaks Plantation.  There were Laughing Gulls,
> Herrings and Black Backs, but most of the huge flock were Ring-bills. (
> Headed for Richmond parking lots no doubt.)
>          A swing through Shirley produced many Horned Larks and hundreds
> of Pipits in the corn fields along the main road.
>         They are pumping water into one of the fields and have created a
> great habitat for ducks and shorebirds. We saw Shovelers, GW Teal, Coots,
> Gadwalls, Ring-necks, Ruddys and Mallards.  From the opposite side, along
> the road to the trash port, we climbed the berm and scoped out the mud
> flats.  No Golden Plover, but we saw four Pectoral Sandpipers along with
> Semi -palmated Plovers, Dunlin,  Peeps,  (Western this time of year?) one
> Least and many many Killdeer.
>          We also saw two fox, one gray and one with red on his front half
> and gray on the back.  Do they hybridize or was this two- toned fox just
> growing out his winter coat? Are they all gray in the winter?
>
> Betsy and Ben Saunders
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