The Wild West

[koganbot]

Nature notes in Denver:

(1) Two hailstorms in three days. Intense ones, though brief. Leaves are all over the ground.

(2) Saw a fox on the corner of 5th Avenue and Emerson, a residential neighborhood about a 25-minute walk from downtown and all its high-rise office buildings (25 minutes if you're a person; probably quicker if you're a fox). The fox looked at me, then headed down into a storm drain. Supposedly that's where the foxes live, in the storm drains. Don't know how that works for them during flash thunderstorms and showers. I saw a fox a couple blocks over from there several weeks ago (perhaps the same one).

Is it standard to have foxes living in the middle of major cities?

EDIT: Street view (without fox).

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

London is full of foxes: there are more in the city than in the rest of the country

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Seconded. There's at least two living in the small estate behind our road.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I saw a city fox t'other day; looked like a right wrong'un; nowt like propurr foxes loik in country.

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure you're in the middle of an apocalypse.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

We've got at least one fox in the backyard (tracks in the snow in winter). Same type of neighbourhood as you describe in (2), plus the house backs up onto train tracks so there's plenty of undeveloped scrub. There are also feral cats, skunks, rabbits, groundhogs, pigeons and lots of other birds, so it's a whole ecosystem really.

Street View

[koganbot]

Here's a link to the street view.

[koganbot]

Er, no, that street view doesn't work. Try this one.

And here's where I live, about a ten-minute walk from the fox.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I don't think Montreal has street views yet! But yeah my part of town is more or less like that, but more closely built (mostly semi-detacheds) and with East Coast vegetation.