Philip Robert

I've been visiting my Dad this month, and his kitchen looks out over the driveway and back yard. While I was doing dishes this morning we had a little visitor amble up the driveway. A little grey fox! What a gorgeous little creature she was with a light grey face and back with red fringe going to her belly and down her legs. She was in the middle of the drive way when I leaned up over the sink to get a better look, and she sort of trotter towards the house. She seemed to be looking up at the window as if to figure out what I was. Her ears pricked forward and her head darted up and down looking intently towards me. I wasn't breathing.

Dad was coming into the kitchen. I could hear his footsteps behind me, and I quietly said, "Dad look out in the driveway." Just as I spoke the little vixen trotted towards the edge of the bushes, but stopped in the middle of the drive to look back. She stood there in the sunshine letting us get a good look at her.

Dad's camera was on the dining room table, but neither one of us wanted to move. I was certain that as soon as I did the fox would dash off into the underbrush never to be seen again. Later Dad told me that he was thinking the same thing.

This is why you should have a window behind your kitchen sink.

Tomorrow morning I'll keep the camera closer and see if this friendly little fox comes calling again.