Today we’re featuring some Honorary Cats™ sent by reader Jay Haas along with some notes:
Since you say you’re looking for more, here are some gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus). In May 2012, a vixen and her five kits moved in under our deck and stayed about two weeks. They left the night I had a small gathering out there; a true case of “there goes the neighborhood.” The kits would get fairly close to me on the small deck, but mom was wary and would glare at me from a distance. When she brought prey home for the kits, they did not share; rather, one kit would drag it away and eat and defend it. Sorry to say I have no photos of that.
Five fox kits in a row:
Fox in tomato bed:
Fox mom and kit:
Fox kit drinking from birdbath:
Mom and kit:
And I haven’t forgotten the birders. Here are several avian portraits by reader Colin Franks (photography website here and Facebook page here). I don’t have the identifications, but I’m sure many readers can provide the species (please add these in the comments). I do recognize the cedar waxwing in the third photo (Bombycilla cedrorum), and I’m pretty sure the fourth is a house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus).
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Wonderful pics, all.
Nice photos! Love the gull. Looks like a Silver Gull or a Red-billed Gull, depending on if the shot was taken in Australia or New Zealand.
I think the Gull is and adult Heermann’s Gull and that the hummingbird a female Anna’s Hummingbird
Awwww, those kits are kute 🙂
Nice birds too! Splendid photography.
Adorable baby foxes, alone and with mom.
OMG baby foxes!!!!
Love those bird pictures – the hummy is gorgeous & the kind of shot I want to be able to get one day.
I saw 3 cedar wax wings in my yard this week – an adult with a couple juveniles…this after I had just said a day or so before, “I never see cedar wax wings.” Must’ve been Jesus.
The whole f’in Holy Trinity!!
Gorgeous foxes, and the birds – just Wow!
It just hit me that fox babies are called “kits” so someone else probably thought they deserved to be honorary cats as well.