Fox on his blocks
By adamg - Mon, 05/19/2008 - 10:12am.
Chuck Tanowitz reports seeing a fox in West Newton this morning:
This is a very urban neighborhood and it was crossing the street next to my house.
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VERY urban?
While West Newton isn't your Framingham/strip mall style of suburbia, I'd say the label of "very urban" is more appropriate for the South End or something.
Population Density
There are parts of West Newton ... like, near old mills and train stations ... that have two and three family houses on 3,000 sq ft or less lots. Sounds rather urban to me.
Certainly more urban than my neighborhood in Medford, where we have noticed signs and sightings of these paralyzingly cute omnivores for over a year now.
If they come to feast on my strawberries and raspberries again this year, and they bring the puppies with them, I'll just have to pass out from teh cute.
There aren't any old mills
There aren't any old mills in West Newton...???
Mills Everywhere
No, they were not just in Lowell. Waltham was lousy with them, and Newton had a fair share of manufacturing going on, too.
Just because these things aren't still there, doesn't mean that the land use wasn't shaped by the need to walk to work and/or a train station.
I will admit that I was thinking more of Auburndale ... but West Newton has areas of relatively high Victorian area density, too.
Dense...
The area I referred to as "urban" has single and 2 family houses on 4000 or 6000 square foot lots. My living room window is about 6 feet from my neighbor's window.
I've seen a fox -- maybe
I've seen a fox -- maybe even the same one -- in West Newton, and so has my dad. Not a bad life, maybe -- plenty of food, places to hide and den in, makes the cars look like not so much of a hazard!
A fox? Deer me.
It's a wildlife invasion! I saw a deer on the D Line tracks in Brookline Village on Sunday.