Rock Pile Kits

 The title sounds like something you would buy at a toy store, but in this case, it refers to the three gray fox kits that were raised in the rock pile in our back yard; the rock pile we preserved as a feature to attract the wild animal and plant life of the area.

Well, the gray fox found a great place to raise her three kits in the top of the pile where there apparently is a cave of sorts that all three kits could call home for a while. As is the usual arrangement, the mother fox lived close by but not in the den with the kits.

We did not notice this activity right away, but one day looking out the back window, we spotted a small fox that appeared briefly and then disappeared into the pile.   We kept the camera handy to catch the activity in the future.

Here is what we caught.

Kit Gray fox on the rock pile

After about three weeks, the three small foxes decided that they would vacate the rock pile and join mother.  We observed this ceremony when mother fox visited and as she left, all three went with her, single file to the back woods.

Over the next several months, we saw the small foxes when they would occasionally visit their early homestead, but then as time went by, and they grew to adult size, they stopped coming by, hopefully now out on their own.

A fantastic animal.