Philip he's a beauty. Yes, your foxes are the ones always pictured in our childhood story books. The red foxes we have in the US can look quite different than yours and are sometimes not even red. They can often be confused with the grey fox. The only surefire way to tell is to look at the tip of the tail. Our red fox will have a white tipped tail.
"Red foxes are often confused with gray foxes, which share a similar habitat and range. This can make identification difficult, because some red foxes can large patches of gray fur and gray foxes have patches of red fur. Gray foxes are somewhat smaller and have a slightly more-rounded face and shorter snout.
The surefire way to tell the difference is to look for the color at the tip of the tail. Gray foxes have black-tipped tails, while red fox tails are white. Although they are very similar in name and appearance, the gray fox and the red fox are only distant cousins, belonging to different genera in the family Canidae."
http://www.nwf.org/wildlife/wi...
