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Offline skyhigh_seller

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What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« on: April 25, 2009, 02:46:13 AM »
Photo sucks.  You need to enlarge photo, but I think someone will know.  It was seen 2 days consecutively out my window.  I live in Central New York.
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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2009, 04:02:19 AM »
Beats me all I see no matter how much I blow it up is vegetation. I see no critters period. Where in the photo is a subject that you are asking about?
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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2009, 04:25:00 AM »
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Beats me all I see no matter how much I blow it up is vegetation

Me neither!   ???
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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2009, 04:47:03 AM »
Just right of center.
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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2009, 08:19:43 AM »

All I see that is "critteresque" looks like a fox w/ white tip on tail.  Can't really tell based on the photo being kinda foggy looking.

Course, you know what a fox looks like, so what did it look like to you?  Give us a description, size, color, what did it act like, how did it move?  Then get a better picture if possible...maybe try a little baiting to get a closer shot.

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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2009, 09:11:52 AM »
I am running a good monitor here and it turned the fox w/white tip tail into a deadfall, or one large branch. First thing that caught my attention was the stump at the upper left hand side but I had seen a few of those before.
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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2009, 10:14:36 AM »
I'm running a 32" high quality monitor with a very high end video card in my super computer and I still see nothing that looks like a critter. If you mean the horizonal thing with what could be a white tail it looks more bunny rabbit than anything else critter like but I still think it's a piece of downed tree. It's at the base of a tree leaning left and just above the green growth?

Even on my monster monitor blown up 400% it doesn't look like an animal to me.
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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2009, 10:49:06 AM »
Does somebody actually not know what a fox looks like?   I took the plunge along with the rest of the suckers just for kicks though... if I had to go with any of the guesses, it would be the fox after heavily scrutinizing the picture with PSP.   

With little information given as if it was obvious has buffoonery written all over it, or a case of too much wacky tabacky.

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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2009, 11:47:31 AM »
I could see it clearly, but photo is bad, through window and moving.  White tipped tail can only mean red fox and it is black with mottled red.  It must be a Red Fox cross phase.  I have never ever heard of anyone seeing one.  Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mammals shows them.
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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2009, 04:45:28 PM »

From what I can tell from the pic I would say it is a cross fox.  You can find the odd one here in southern Manitoba.  When I lived and


worked up north I would buy fur for the Hudson Bay Co. now the Northern stores.  Bought quite a few up there.



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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2009, 04:48:44 PM »
I think it is nobama in disquise looking for a press conference!
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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2009, 02:33:22 AM »
Looks like a cross fox to me too.
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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2009, 03:49:34 AM »
Looks like a "silver or cross fox" to me. We have the silvers out here in Alberta.
Here's some good photos of the "cross fox"
http://www.oceanlight.com/lightbox.php?x=cross_fox__fox__mammal__animal
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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2009, 05:19:27 AM »
It's just a Red Fox,just a little different color variation.Iv'e seen them red,black,and redish black.But the tail always keeps it's white tip.
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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2009, 05:38:30 AM »
Here is a close up of the pic:


Here is another fox:
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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #15 on: April 26, 2009, 06:37:24 AM »
Saw from your profile that you live in Texas and I am sure that it is warmer there than where I live in Colorado, so could it be a fox that is just shedding it's winter coat and you can see it's darker undercoat?  I use to see fox all the time when I lived in Illinois and they were always darker in the spring during turkey season than they were in the winter.  It may be a "cross fox", but I think it's just a regular red fox that is loosing his winter coat.  Just my opinion.

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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #16 on: April 26, 2009, 08:07:28 AM »
Aardvark , Thanks for that close up, until that, I had not seen nothing! But then my eyes aren't what they once were! I had just written this thread off. I'd say it was definitely a fox.  ;D
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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2009, 04:29:24 PM »
nice blow-up there Aardvark.   What kinda set-up are you using to pull that out??????
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Re: What is this??? I know it is not bigfoot, but I think it is pretty rare.
« Reply #18 on: April 27, 2009, 02:13:22 AM »
I am curious if anyone knows they % of population that is cross?  I understand there will be local and regional differences, but is it 1%, 0.1% or less?  I did a bit of searching and found no info.

Thanks

Maybe a high volume trapper or fur buyer could figure their percentage.
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