Common Gray Fox

I was standing on the front porch a few days ago looking at song birds at my bird feeder out in the forest...I saw what I thought was a coyote coming up through the forest...It disappeared several times and I thought it had seen or smelled me and went back the way it came, but it suddenly popped out going toward the pond....I was pretty excited when I realized it was a gray fox! I had never seen one this close before...

He did figure out I was taking pictures of him and off he ran.....dang!

What a lovely tail he had...look at that black stripe going down to the tip of it!