TRR photo by Anne Willard A gray fox scavenges for small mammals and fruit fallen from a mulberry tree in Hankins, NY.

A gray woodland ghost

By SANDY LONG

My colleague, Anne Willard, has lately been the lucky recipient of morning and evening visitations from a rather secretive forest phantom. A mulberry tree in Willard’s yard has attracted the attention of a gray fox, who sometimes brings a guest to dine on the mulberry’s abundant crop of thumb-sized fruits.

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