ORIGINAL: HNI_Christine
Definitely a red fox. Darker color phase maybe (like a cross), kind of hard to tell if it's shadowing or actual pelt color.
He's a nice one for sure.
Here's a pic of classic cross color phase.(for you guysthat aren't familiar withthem)They're more common up north.
WOW!!!! That looks like an ENORMOUS FOX!!!! If I shot that thing around here, it would be a healthy coyote in an odd red/black color phase until someone showed me otherwise. Not saying it's not a fox, just saying I WOULDN'T KNOW the difference. All of our foxes look more like the pic I posted. But we don't have many in our area anymore, I believe the coyote's have decimated them.