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mostly field mice, fruit and worms. Yes, he made quite a discovery. The red fox would grab the end of a worm as it stuck out of the ground and then delicately pull and tug until the worm gave up ahd twanged out of the hole like a piece of stretched elastic.
The red foxes of Rappahannock came over from England in the first place and obviously* a^l had the trick in their survivaHwiechanism. Those hundreds of holes were the evidence of our resident foxes.
So far as farming is concerned, earthworms are a plus. With no-till hay crops, the worm aerates the soil, prevents it from compacting and adds nutrients with its many wormcasts. But we didn’t begrudge those foxes a meal or two. And we could even argue like true conservationists that it was all for the good.
Each winter we scatter a mixture of new seed on the established sod, trusting in the frost to crack the soil and bury the seed. Now we know we have the added help of little fox paws working in the predawn hours. One could also argue that whatever nutrient was contained in the worm was left behind in the fox dropping, unlike the birds which might fly off and drop it somewhere else.
There’s not much we can do about it anyway. Those smart fox families were catching \vorms on the property long before we arrived. As for the worms, if they were as smart as the foxes, they would keep their heads down.
Dr. Gerald Hawkins is a worldreknowned author and astronomer, whose books include Stonehenge Decoded and Beyond Stonehenge. He lives with his wife, Julia, on a farm outside Woodville.
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