Wild Fox Leaves Gruesome Gifts for Humans   My friend Jeff, a
fellow board member of the Emerging Wildlife Conservation
Leaders program, sent me a question about a strange and
interesting wildlife encounter he and his family had at their
home in Virginia, wondering what my thoughts were about it as a
Naturalist.  From Jeff:  "My family has been watching a fox
family that has been denning in our backyard by the stream for
several months now. A Vixen and two kits. For a long time we
would see them every morning and most evenings. We even watched
the vixen catch and eat a squirrel one morning right in the
middle of our yard.  We haven't seen them for several weeks, so
we assumed they had moved onto a new home. Then early this
morning I saw one bolt of the foxes around the side of the house
and to the stream, so I was happy to learn that they were still
living here.   And to my surprise when I went out the front
door, I saw that it had left me a dead bird and a dead baby
rabbit right by my front porch, perfectly