Lincoln Squirrel reader Stephanie Smart photographed this animal on the afternoon of August 30 near her home on Beaver Pond Road. “It was standing up, hunting when we drove up. It crouched down when it noticed us. It was the size, shape and coloring of a fox or a small reddish coyote. But its face was far too puffy and its ears are quite rounded on the top. I did not get to see its tail,” she writes. Any guesses?
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It’s a mule fox, bred by early Lincolnites to catch farm vermin and also pull carts of farm produce to market.
Looks like a juvenile corgi-wolf. Nice sighting! Very rare.
We saw this same animal last spring on Tower Road — it was drinking out of the bird bath at the Green’s (old) house!
My best guess is that it is a young deer. Although I prefer the previous two identifications.