| This is a "hands on" opportunity for youth
and adults. Naturalist Dave Winkler tells the young man on the
right to not be afraid. In his center, it is OK to touch
displays. "This was extremely interesting," said the boy's
escort, a local resident and grandmother.
With an easy going style and animated
delivery, visitors seem spellbound as Winkler tells them about
creatures in the Interpretive Center and beyond.
"A gentleman who lived behind the nature
center dropped by one day and asked me what could be living on
his roof," he said. "I suggested it might be opossums or some
type of rodent."
"Could foxes live up there? I think that's
what is on my roof," the neighbor queried. Winkler offered a
frown and said it was unlikely. The neighbor then pulled out
photos and asked him to take a look. Pictured were several red
foxes sitting on a roof top on Rio Vista Drive in Huntington
Beach.
Foxes were apparently were climbing a shed on
the man's property and hopping from there onto the roof. As
coyotes have encroached into their territory, the few that exist
have begun to seek other places to live, Winkler stated.
"Let's say that there are possibly only a few foxes in this
territory." |
