Scott D said: > Never seen a fox in the wild myself, cool! I did see a pair of wolves > about 15 years ago in East Texas, but didn't have a camera on me (too > young then...).
I'm not even sure there are many foxes in Texas. > > I think this goes back a few threads to when someone mentioned to me > that photographers were sometimes experts in the fields they > photographed. In particular, lightning. The same goes with wildlife, it > helps a great deal to know the biology of the animal(s) you seek to > photograph. > > I'm no biologist myself (computer programmer, actually) but I have I'm a physicist, myself. But I like the woods. > wandered the woods and swamps of Texas a bit. I've noticed a big > difference between the manner in which my wife and I go through the > woods (my wifes from Toronto). She is a good 50 lbs. lighter than I and > shorter but has a much stronger presence when going down the trails. I > tend to take lighter, quiter steps and take my time going down the trail > despite our size difference. When I am alone I sometimes approach deer > within distances of less than 30 feet. Foxes and deer work together. One time I was trying to creep up on some deer, and I spooked a fox that I didn't know was there, which ran past the deer, and the deer high-tailed it. And just yesterday some deer ran away from me and spooked a fox that until then was content to sit and watch me. What you do in the woods depends on what you want to get out of it, I suppose. To read Tom Brown, you'd think anyone that jogs through the woods is committing a crime because they're not sitting quietly and letting nature come to them. My brother and his wife go pretty fast, I like to take my time and see what there is to see. Like paw prints on an erosion barrier at a construction site, or a yellow Nerf ball some distance from a school, with little chunks ripped out of it and smelling of fox pee. I like to try to figure out the story there, but the Nerf ball seems pretty obvious. Wish I could have watched it.
