Breakfast rounds

Photos by Stan Rolfsrud

Zorro is midway between a heavy winter overcoat and a smart red summer outfit.

Zorro (which means Fox in Spanish) looked disappointed 
 after getting no warm breakfast today.

Zorro, our neighborhood red fox, circled the pond twice hunting for mice and any other opportunities this morning. He's a bit scruffy, his winter coat is molting in rags, but spring time's abundance will have him in a smart red tunic before long.
Zorro searched everywhere this morning, around the dry waterfall (above), in Kathleen's empty flower pots, in the bushes and under the deck, but found nothing for breakfast. He trotted off after about five minutes in an irregular gait, he's clearly stepped into something.
We hope he doesn't find the eggs when our mallard pair eventually hide their nest, but we're not optimistic. This old cunning fox is pretty thorough.