Fox Hunting in Southern Illinois with a Canon…… (camera).

May 7

Someone I work with told me they had a family of foxes. They said I could come out and see if I could get a photo or 2. I jumped at the chance.

I first had to come up with a way to not scare them off. I needed a blind. Lucky for me my brothers Mark and Dennis are both hunters and said yes I could borrow a pop-up blind if I needed it. I was out an brother Dennis’s house trying to get some bird shots last weekend and grabbed a blind. Then after work one day I put up the blind so the foxes could get used to seeing it.

Now it is the 7th of May and I head out to try my luck. I got in the blind about 15 minutes before sunrise. I set up my camp chair, put my camera on a Monopod sat down and proceeded to wait. Oh and the chair sunk into the mud!

I sat for an hour and had promised the wife I would be back around 7:30 am, we had the Grandkids all night. I was getting ready to pull the plug an I saw a red fox tail disappearing into a creek bed. I missed it. So I waited and heard the fox calling out. (Ask me I know what the fox says. Very different than the song). Again I wait and about to give up and up pops the fox.

I was able to get these shots