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1st time seeing the male and female together, Grey Foxes in MA

Very cool! Just curious on how do you tell which one is male vs female? 


I happen to see a pair of grey fox together like that once but haven’t seen them both together again.

TBH I can't tell, especially from a night IR video.

All I know is their habits, and all the evidence points me to a paired couple.

Grey Foxes, unlike Reds, mate for life and the males teach their kits how to hunt. If the second one was a Kit, is was awfully big!!

Will
 
thats good to see,,im also in MA 10 MILES north of BOSTON and last month for the first time i seen bald eagles and there chick hi atop a giant pine tree overlooking a ball field perfect for them the SAUGUS river runs right by them and there a quarter mile from the mouth of the ATLANTIC OCEAN cant tell if its the male or not ,seeing him cruise over the river and pluck strippers out is a thing of beauty ,,glad there coming back D T Wiped them out in the seventies HYNZIE
 
thats good to see,,im also in MA 10 MILES north of BOSTON and last month for the first time i seen bald eagles and there chick hi atop a giant pine tree overlooking a ball field perfect for them the SAUGUS river runs right by them and there a quarter mile from the mouth of the ATLANTIC OCEAN cant tell if its the male or not ,seeing him cruise over the river and pluck strippers out is a thing of beauty ,,glad there coming back D T Wiped them out in the seventies HYNZIE

DDT almost wiped them out in the 50's. It was outlawed by the 70's. It got a lot of birds but hit apex predators first because it had a long half life and would run off the fields into the watershed where the fish would concentrate it. That resulted in a weakening of the egg shells. Lots of eagles and ospreys then failed to reproduce. Almost ended them in only a few years.



Sorry. Did not think before I posted ... No intent to hijack the thread.

Love those Grays. Haven't seen one in thirty years ... Moved back east.