Sunday 5 January 2014

Foxy times on James Bay

Back in October of last year Alan and I traveled to Netitishi Point, of which I blogged about extensively already. I was going through my photos and realized that I had neglected to post all of my photos of the most charismatic species we observed there. That being of course, the creatively named Foxy.







Foxy first made a visit several days into the trip as we were sitting out by the coast for hours at a time, scanning for birds on the horizon. It quickly got accustomed to us, and within 24 hours it was our new pet!



Just look at how darn cute Foxy is!



Foxes, along with most mammals, are extremely photogenic (if you can get close to them). I think it is due to the wide range of "emotions" they can appear to have, since we as humans tend to anthropomorphize with expressions that other mammal species can make. 

















Being continually curious, Foxy would frequently check out our gear when we weren't immediately beside it. Inspecting my coffee mug...



And sniffing Alan's camera, seconds before attempting to make off with it.Foxy was unsuccessful, but later on it the trip took off with one of Alan's gloves in tow! Several days later, Alan recovered the glove - unfortunately it was missing several fingers...



Hope to see you on this year's trip, Foxy!

5 comments:

Blake A. Mann said...

Superb series of photos. Good thing that fox did not carry away Alan's camera!

The Furry Gnome said...

Great photos! You really did get friendly with that fox.

Anonymous said...

It was pretty hilarious watching Alan running after Foxy into the woods when it stole his glove though!

Anonymous said...

Thanks! Certainly a highlight of the trip.

CraftyViolet said...

I had no idea a fox would come that close to humans. Great shots.