{"id":196,"date":"2011-06-24T17:41:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T00:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/?p=196"},"modified":"2011-06-24T17:41:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T00:41:48","slug":"return-of-the-gray-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Gray Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The gray foxes are back in our Mendocino neighborhood, a meadow at the edge of the forest. We\u2019ve seen them several times, mostly at twilight. They use our low-to- the-ground front porch as a highway. One sat for a long time at the edge of the driveway, observing the meadow. A few evenings ago Tony called me to a back window. On the hill above the wall, a fox was eagerly digging at a gopher hole. A few moments earlier I had seen its mate running up the middle of the road, and soon there were two moving side by side into the thicket. I\u2019ve heard them bark, a raspy single note, like a cough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although gray foxes are typically crepuscular, we\u2019ve seen them in broad daylight too. As we were walking across the commons yesterday, not long after noon, a fox dashed across our path with some small creature in its mouth, probably a vole or gopher. It\u2019s likely that nearby was a nest burrow where hungry kits were waiting to be fed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There\u2019s a nice description of the gray fox, with pictures, in the newsletter of <a title=\"Watershed Project article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewatershedproject.org\/post.php?postid=143\" target=\"_blank\">The Watershed Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gray foxes are back in our Mendocino neighborhood, a meadow at the edge of the forest. We\u2019ve seen them several times, mostly at twilight. They use our low-to- the-ground front porch as a highway. One sat for a long time at the edge of the driveway, observing the meadow. A few evenings ago Tony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,8],"tags":[136,404,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}