Last week I made a short getaway trip to San Juan Island and I was lucky enough to find a couple different black foxes at San Juan Island National Park on the southeast corner of the island. The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is poorly named because they have a diverse range of colors including red, white, silver and black. For whatever reason, the black morph is common on San Juan Island. I did see one red fox as well. Although I generally prefer invertebrates, foxes are one of my favorite mammals, in large part because of the folklore that accompany them everywhere from Japan to Finland.
