Proficient Predator

While not an image that depicts a predator ripping open a carcass, this one has sat in my files for too long waiting for some attention, so I finally got around to it to share it as part of this week's theme. 

I dearly wish I had had ANY warning that this fox vixen was returning to the den site I was at with the results of her hunting foray for her kits, but I was tucked against my truck and looking down the barrel of my 500mm at an adorable kit when I heard something beside me. I whipped the lens around and found and focused on this scene as she went past, but sadly she was already beyond an ideal angle so I counted it as a memory recorded more than anything else. Still, there's 5 rodents visible here and we thought we counted 6 on the ground after she deposited them for her kits, and that's a pretty remarkable feat IMO!

Techs to come. Thanks for looking!