The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is found all over the world, and despite its name can be golden, reddish-brown, silver, or black. The red fox typically hunts small game like rodents, rabbits, and birds, but can also feed on fish, frogs, worms, fruits, and vegetables. While these foxes are skilled hunters, they are also hunted: fox hunting as sport dates from the 1700s in England, and fox chasing—where the fox is pursued by hounds, but not killed—is still practiced in the United States. From the 1930s to the 1980s, members of the Potomac Hunt Club hunted fox on and around the land that now forms Glenstone’s grounds. Though the club eventually moved north, red foxes remain frequent callers to Glenstone, with occasional sightings by visitors and staff.

–Carly Davis, from the Glenstone Field Guide