Can Foxes Climb Trees ?
Can foxes climb trees ?
Not perhaps the first question on your mind when you awoke this morning but never-let-it-be-said that we’re not thought provoking here !
There is a reason for bringing you this and the picture
Last night I was parking my car in a side street (don’t ask why - that’s a job for the police) when I saw an urban fox walk along a brick wall, than along a 6 foot high wooden fence before jumping off toward a tree !
Incredibly cat-like of course and visual proof of evolution before one’s own eyes and in a lifetime rather than millions of years.
This reason I bring you this is because I walked off wondering whether a fox could actually climb a tree and guess what I’ve just seen in an online newspaper ?
Foxes ‘Nesting’ 30 Feet high in a Tree
Incredible and what a coincidence. The paper claim various things with journalistic predictability
‘Naturalists are baffled’
‘Wildlife experts say …’
Their foxes are in Ipswich, Suffolk mine was in Scartho, Lincolnshire, I like mine the best 
I used to have a fox that would sunbathe in my garden during the day, curl up and go to sleep in the sunniest spot of a quiet little haven.
So there you go, an irreverent and practically useless post - sorry to have robbed you of valuable minutes if you got this far that is.
Watch out for foxes on the roads when you’re driving !
All the best
Rod
Jordan said,
February 26, 2009 @ 11:54 am
RC
It probably saw you coming! Poor thing is probably still stuck up there!
Jordan
Rod said,
February 26, 2009 @ 12:09 pm
Jordan
everybody sees me coming - it’s why I keep getting my leg taken up
Best
Rod
Jordan said,
February 26, 2009 @ 1:18 pm
Little Brother said,
February 26, 2009 @ 10:03 pm
Rod,
Good work Tintin! Didn’t expect this kind of post, you’re a sly old fox
LB
the dinosaur said,
February 27, 2009 @ 7:51 am
Rod, I think that fox is “barking up the wrong tree”
Rod said,
February 27, 2009 @ 9:17 am
Dino
I’m not sure whether it’s the fox that’s ‘barking’ or me
Cheers
Rod
michael said,
May 9, 2010 @ 9:25 pm
sorry no photo for proof,but I saw an urban fox in the tree outside my kitchen window. It was in the lower branches but still around six feet of the ground.
Rod said,
May 10, 2010 @ 8:16 am
Michael,
that’s great stuff - many thanks for taking the time to confirm another case and welcome to the site - hope you’ll return
All the best
Rod
wretched said,
June 8, 2011 @ 7:13 am
My mom just called to tell me she was looking out her window (3rd story condominium) this morning and saw a fox (reddish coat, long nose, bushy tail, larger than a cat) sleeping in a tree outside her building. She said it was at least 30 feet up. When the day got hotter it was gone. She called to ask if foxes can climb trees. I promised to web search that, and got a picture straight away. Amazing!