I knew grey fox could climb trees but this is the first I've got it on camera.

Very cool, they climb better than most of us realize. Mink can climb like that too.

Judging from that picture, if we could use 220's on dry ground in Arkansas, you could catch grey fox with marten sets.

Very cool picture

Very cool picture!!

Cool picture ermine are good climbers as well,woodchuck too never seen a gopher climb a tree but I bet they can just never seen it before.Thanks for sharing/

Very cool. Thanks for sharing that.

Funny you post that. I was talking to a customer Thurs and she said she saw a red fox jump into the crotch of a tree trying to catch a squirrel. It was only 6-7' off the ground.

About 20 years ago, I was bowhunting and saw a grey fox climb an oak, getting 10-12' up. It was a bigger tree than the one in the above pic, but just as straight. He went up then back down, just like a cat.

Over a period of 10 to 12 years, back in 60s and 70s I shot 3 gray fox out of a persimmon tree. The was a patch of about 30 trees on my cousin's farm. When I would go there, squirrel hunting, I always made a point to be there in early morning and last light. When the fruit was ripe, those old gray fox couldn't pass it by.

Garry-

The first gray fox I ever saw, went up a tree to get away from me, when I spooked it towards a busy road in the afternoon. I thought it was a huge, weird colored squirrel, until I got close enough to identify it.

Keith

I have heard gray foxes could climb trees but I always imagined a leaning tree they kind of ran up.

That picture leads me to believe they cn climb like cats or squirrels

Walking in to a deer stand before lite i had one bail out of a tree nexr to me that woke me up, when I looked close inspecting the tree it was a wild plum. Never noticed it before. Harvested plums for several years. Out of that tree and two others nearby.

For those that may not be aware... Gray fox, unlike red fox have retractable claws like a cat. Check out a set of gray fox tracks on flat sandy ground... no claws showing. Red fox on the hand, do have claw prints like coyote or a house or pet dog.

Garry-

Me too

We started seeing those gray fox up here maybe ten years ago. They had become evening visitors at the bear baits seeking rodents. Watched them do a lot of that.
Thought they would do well being able to climb up and away from the few coyotes the wolves have left live but the last few years I’m not seeing them anymore. Big hawks and owls?

Osky

I seen a mink chase two squirrels around a tree one day , I thought it was a black squirrel but it was a mink .

Nice picture.

We had a good number of Grays here locally a few years back. ( !8-20 yrs) Our Reds were nearly gone from Coyote predation. I always assumed the Grays were evading the Coyotes by climbing out of their reach. Then, in about 2 years time, the Grays were nearly gone. I had a flurry of customers bring me Grays to mount/tan that one fall......all were actually found dead! I think they got hit by a disease like distemper. It near wiped them out hear abouts.

Cool photo TW

Saw a red in a tree one time. Not an easy tree either. Might have been a big crabapple. Could have got it, but didn't have permission on that land.

They were hit really hard by distemper in 2019 in this area. I was catching more greys than reds for awhile, now they are pretty much gone.