A red fox stands in a stark white snowscape looking at the camera.  Large, erect, black-edged ears, pointy snout, bushy tail and amber eyes with vertical pupils.

Ever So Clever: Red Fox

One morning when the sun was just coming up, a red fox strolled across the driveway near the road on Owl Acres. In the time that we’ve lived here, that’s the only sighting we’ve had of Mr. Fox. That’s not too surprising really. Foxes are generally nocturnal and will claim and defend an area of […]

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Closeup of the Meadow Vole in the talons of the namesake tree sculpture at Owl Acres.

Not Mice: Meadow Voles

On Owl Acres, we have a chainsaw carving of a barred owl. Captured in her talons is a mouse-sized critter whose short tail suggests a vole rather than a mouse. Mother Nature seems to have several niches for little mammals like mice whose main job is to convert plant material to meat for a whole […]

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