Is it odd to see a fox roaming suburban streets? Was on a night walk and saw one in a neighbour’s front yard. Thought it was a cat at first but that was a big cat with a very bushy tail. I was startled.
Not odd at all. I saw one in my front yard just last week in Thornbury. And the tramways depot in Preston has quite a few, as does Merri Creek. As of about 2006, the industrial part of Footscrazy had the highest density of red foxes in the world - about 6 breeding pairs per hectare. Dunno if that’s still true. All over pretty much all the suburbs - and a good reason to keep your cat inside. They are a major problem in the Melbourne cemetery in Parkville - they dig holes under the headstones which then fall over and break. If there’s rats or rubbish or ground nesting birds/marsupials around, there will be foxes there to eat them. I’ve seen a fox run out of the underground parking garage at my workplace - in Richmond. Dunno how it got in as the place is thoroughly wire netted and the roller doors are in contact with the ground when closed. But foxes are clever.
Is it odd to see a fox roaming suburban streets? Was on a night walk and saw one in a neighbour’s front yard. Thought it was a cat at first but that was a big cat with a very bushy tail. I was startled.
Not odd at all. I saw one in my front yard just last week in Thornbury. And the tramways depot in Preston has quite a few, as does Merri Creek. As of about 2006, the industrial part of Footscrazy had the highest density of red foxes in the world - about 6 breeding pairs per hectare. Dunno if that’s still true. All over pretty much all the suburbs - and a good reason to keep your cat inside. They are a major problem in the Melbourne cemetery in Parkville - they dig holes under the headstones which then fall over and break. If there’s rats or rubbish or ground nesting birds/marsupials around, there will be foxes there to eat them. I’ve seen a fox run out of the underground parking garage at my workplace - in Richmond. Dunno how it got in as the place is thoroughly wire netted and the roller doors are in contact with the ground when closed. But foxes are clever.
I’m in north east suburbs. I see fox all the time.
I see them a lot round the springy cemetery.