The Old Silo Raven and The East Barnet Fox.

     Yesterday was one of the most memorable days of my life.  Something I am not going to forget for a long long time.  I spent my teenage years growing up in East Barnet, Vermont.  My mother lived there in the same house for 25 years.  The last 5 years or so my mother had come to know a fox.  This fox would always show up in the garage eating her cat food.  She never tried to hurt it and it actually really liked my mother.  The fox isn't the normal red fox, but a grayish brown.  He is huge and is so beautiful. The tip of his tail and the white on his neck is as white as winter's first snowfall.
     I had to go and pick up my mother in West Barnet, Vermont to take her to get some surgery done.  I first had to stop at the farm and drop Kathy off a newspaper and check on the gelding named Jake.  Jake had ripped his eyelid somehow and needed stitches.  But that is a story for another time.  I looked in the sky and was hoping to see George.  BUT he wasn't around.  I was very very early so part of me knew that I probably wouldn't get to talk to him.  So with a slightly heavy heart I got in my truck and headed south on the Old Silo Road and into East Barnet.
     Ravens have a 100 mile radius in their territory flight pattern.  So when I'm in that area I'm always looking for George if he isn't at the farm.  But to no avail NO GEORGE!!!!
     I finally got to East Barnet and turned onto Rt 5.  Started up the road and about 2/10ths of a mile I see a fox on the side of the road.  I slowed right down trying to get my camera ready.  And I stopped the truck completely and began to rub my eyes.  There, RIGHT THERE in front of me was the beautiful grey fox and GEORGE!!!!  George and the fox were on the side of the road eating french fries out of a McDonalds bag.
     George's other favorite food is french fries by the way!!!  So I can't believe what I'm seeing.  Then I start to creep up and George takes off, but I see him look at the truck and he turned around.  The fox took off like a flash.  I waited for George to go back to the bag. It didn't take long at all.  I stopped the truck and got out.  I didn't walk up, I kept my distance.  I watched him for a moment and he looked at me and tilted his head.  He knew who I was!!!  I began to chuckle and that brought him to attention.  I said to him, "George, You better eat all of those fries up before you get run over."  George looked at me and clapped his beak together, cocked his head took a couple of fries and then he flew away.  I couldn't believe what I saw and I still can't.  To see a fox and a raven sharing a meal together is a once in a lifetime experience and one I will not forget!!!

     I found another story about a fox and a raven.  It is a story from Aesop.  Here is the link so you can here another great story.

https://sites.google.com/site/theaesopsawards/the-fox-and-the-raven


The photo below are not mine! I wish I could have gotten a photo of them.  So the photos are to prove that a raven and a fox can be together without hurting each other.

Stay Tuned for more stories of George: The Old Silo Raven!

George and I thank you for stopping by!!!!