Barking Fox

We’ve heard them barking before, lots of times, but while we figured they were foxes, we were never quite sure.

Last night one sounded like it was just outside our window. I grabbed my trusty bludgeon…er, flashlight…and tried to shine it through the screen. All I could see were glowing eyes, so a bit later, when the sounds persisted, I sneaked down to the computer desk for my glasses and then out the back door.

After the eyes ran to just outside a far corner of our property and then back up to their original sounding place above our fence line, I was finally able to see the barking animal. But in the shadowing light I still couldn’t tell what it was, so this morning after I put new batteries in my flashlight, I sat down at the computer and found exactly the sound: