Dipper Ranch

Gray fox pup climbing a plum tree    Every kitchen sink needs a view of nature. My kitchen sink looks out over a birdbath, the orchard, ...

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I know gray foxes live at the Dipper Ranch because they show up on the wildlife cameras and leave me presents on the kitchen stoop. When...

Alarm signal?    With such long tails, gray foxes undoubtably use them to communicate aggression, submission and other messages to eac...

Just another day of fox pups romping in the farmyard.

The gray fox pups spent a lot of time on this mound just outside the den entrance .

A gray fox pup peeks out from under a barn door, an improvised den entrance.    A family of gray foxes moved into the old barn on the ...

Windscorpian    It's walnut harvest time. There's going to be a big crop and lots of neighbors and friends to share the bounty...

Hello, hello, are you dead yet? The driveway and the front gate have a good view across the Dipper Ranch, so I always scan the propert...

First mud puddle - must have been some party going on after that rain    Rain. Here are photos of tracks that appeared in one little mud...

Juvenile western yellow-bellied racer pulled from the main springbox on October 22. Will this be the last snake observed on the Dipper Ra...

Arrggh, that sinking feeling when I open up my Bushnell HD Trophy trail camera and the date says January 1, 2013. It's not January an...

With short legs, flexible forearms, and recurved claws, gray foxes readily climb trees.    What is the "fantastic fossorial fellow ...

Gray fox scurrying off with prey.  Are those floppy bunny ears hanging down?   A week ago Saturday, we heard a loud crash in the backyar...

A grey fox smiling at a tasty meal or the Flehman response? While I was away at a workshop in the Sierras, the mice did play. And so did...

Nighttime silhouette in the wildlife camera at the cattle pen. I felt restless in late November as I often do around the full moon, but ...