{"id":57223,"date":"2019-04-14T05:39:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T11:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=57223"},"modified":"2025-05-24T08:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T13:22:17","slug":"surprise-red-fox-on-a-box-elder-county-hillside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/04\/14\/surprise-red-fox-on-a-box-elder-county-hillside\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Red Fox On A Box Elder County Hillside"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RedRed Fox on a hillside – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/2500, ISO 800, +0.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited or called in<\/span><\/p>\n

While photographing a pair of Red-tailed Hawks mating and nest building yesterday I caught some movement with my peripheral vision and because I know it is important to look beyond the viewfinder I lowered my lens, looked towards the movement and to my surprise I spotted a Red Fox moving on the hillside.<\/p>\n

The female Red-tailed Hawk perched on a nearby rock must have seen the fox about the same time I did because she lifted off and flew to a higher rock. After she lifted off, I pointed out the fox to my companion.<\/p>\n

I was able to lift my gear, focus on the fox, and take a few images of it staring in my direction before it ran up the hill and out of my sight. I wondered at the time if the fox had a den in the rocks below where the female hawk had been perched.<\/p>\n

The fox’s coat was damp so it may have spent the night curled up in the rocks and I know it had rained in the area because even the shoulders of the road were still wet and I even saw some fresh snow at slightly higher elevations.<\/p>\n

I don’t see and photograph foxes as often as I would like to so this Red Fox was a surprise to me because I’d never seen one at this location before.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Red Fox photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t see and photograph foxes as often as I would like to so this Red Fox was a surprise to me because I’d never seen one at this location before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1148,262,26],"tags":[4004,7067,4098,4805,5207,4109,751,2164,4470,4018,165,2166],"class_list":["post-57223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-red-foxes","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-damp","tag-desert","tag-fox","tag-foxes","tag-grasses","tag-hillside","tag-red-fox","tag-rocks","tag-sky","tag-spring","tag-vulpes-vulpes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t