More winter fun at Rockwood

We had fried chicken the other night... and I always skin the chicken before I fry it. So there I was with all this nice, nutritious, yucky chicken skin - I put it back on the meat tray and told Mike to put it out for the foxes. We don't usually feed them, but what else do you do with chicken skins?

So Mike took it out to our "once in a while" fox feeding station - about 100 yards from the house on the driveway between the Gunflint Trail and the shop building.

The next morning the skins and the white foam tray were gone... oops! I was a little concerned until Mike went out to the birdfeeder next to the house - and there was the tray, fox tracks all around it, with only one little bite mark from being carried. The fox enjoyed the skins so much he brought the tray back down to the house for a refill!

The foxes have been down to the house looking for handouts before, witness this photo from last spring.