Cubs! (Kits, pups?)

One last quick post before I leave for Alberta: tonight I saw two half-grown fox kits (or cubs) exploring the golf course almost opposite the house!

They must be Takahe's kits but there was no sign of her, not that it was a very lengthy sighting. They certainly looked an independent age though not ready to take on the world completely alone. Pre-teens, perhaps.

In honesty this was not absolutely my first sighting. I have caught occasional glimpses of kits racing across the residental road where I sometimes see the Survivor Vixen. However, tonight was the best viewing by far, and I would have dashed back out with my camera - except it's already been packed.

Nevertheless, sometimes the best camera is the memory, and it was good to see that, in spite of their tender age, at least one of the kits knows how to behave like a proper fox. Upon noticing its spectators, it sat down. The Sitting FoxCub.