A winter sighting: Red foxes roam near Winter Street
This pair of red foxes was foraging near Winter Street on Jan. 28, 2026. This is one of many species Save Waltham Wildlife/Waltham Land Trust is trying to protect by preserving open land and discouraging the use of by second generation anticoagulants to control rats. SGARs can harm and kill predators such as foxes who consume poisoned rodents.
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I love the foxes in our backyard. They left for awhile as the turkeys scared them off, but just recently I see one again just lying in the snow. I hope he gets a playmate though as I don’t want to see him alone there. lol
I love this story and welcome the red foxes–we have a few fox families in the Cedarwood/Brandeis neighborhoods. I am very much opposed to the use of by second generation anticoagulants to control rats. It is what killed one of the nesting Bald Eagles we had at Mt. Feake cemetery. We need to use a multipronged approach to our rat problem such as focusing on better citywide sanitation, using lethal non-SGAR methods, and biological control approaches such as installing owl nesting boxes throughout all our greenspaces to increase our Great Horned Owl and Barn Owl populations which I see occasionally in Mt. Feake and on the Western Greenway Trail. And we all need to support the work of the Waltham Wildlife/Waltham Land Trust.