[obol] Fwd: Re: Off topic - Gray Fox - Clatsop Co.

  • From: George Neavoll <gneavoll@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: OBOL <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:08:39 -0700

I saw them quite frequently on the farm where I grew up east of Lebanon, in 
Linn County - once in a tree! (This was more than 50 years ago.)

George Neavoll
S.W. Portland

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> From: Wayne Hoffman <whoffman@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [obol] Re: Off topic - Gray Fox - Clatsop Co.
> Date: August 18, 2014 8:59:45 AM PDT
> To: kfsaylor@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: David Lauten <deweysage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, OBOL Oregon Birders Online 
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> Cool picture!
> 
> I have seen them several times in Oregon, but never got a camera on one.  
> Mostly I see them crossing roads in front of the car, generally early AM or 
> near dusk.  My sightings have been in Corvallis, and in the Umpqua, Rogue, 
> and Illinois valleys.
>   
> Wayne
> 
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> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Keith Saylor <kfsaylor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Jeff,
> 
> Here is a link to a Gray Fox image I was able to capture (Aug. 13th, 2014) 
> along the east side of New River in Bandon State Natural Area. The image is 
> fuzzy as I had no time to focus through the grasses.
> 
> https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/CiDOXsHkYEcZJ4rF6EdEVtMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
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> Keith F. Saylor
> 
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> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:46 AM, DJ Lauten and KACastelein 
> <deweysage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oh I should add they are rather common right up to the beach.   They will 
> hunt on the edge of the beach but they generally do not like wondering out 
> into the open, unlike Red Fox.   They really are a woods/shrubby habitat 
> animal which is why they are hard to see.   We see their tracks all the time.
> 
> Cheers
> Dave
> 
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> On 8/18/2014 7:19 AM, DJ Lauten and KACastelein wrote:
> Hello Jeff
> 
> We see Gray Fox or their evidence all the time here in Coos Co. They are 
> rather common, just not the easiest to see.   If anyone doubts me, I can find 
> a whole bunch of people I work with who would confirm this.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Dave Lauten
> 
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> On 8/17/2014 9:11 PM, Jeff Gilligan wrote:
> Owen Schmidt and I saw a Gray Fox as it crossed the road in front of us just 
> before the last parking lots (the one with the raised walk to the bunker 
> observatory at Trestle Bay).  I have seen Gray Foxes in Arizona a number of 
> times, but this was my first sighting for Oregon.  A range map shows them 
> right to  the southern shore of the Columbia River, but not across, and even 
> to the coast.  If there is a more northerly Gray Fox, and the map is 
> accurate, it couldn't be further north than by a few hundred feet.
> 
> http://www.scetv.org/web/web_of_water/images/uploads/gray_fox_r_map.jpg
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