The last 10 years or so I worked, I drove all over Northern VA at night. I've seen 'yotes on neighborhood streets in Herndon and Ashburn as well as at Dulles Corners. I suspect the ones in the neighborhoods were cat hunting. The one in Ashburn was trotting down a sidewalk like he owned the place, which at 0300, he probably did. I once asked one of our cable techs if he ever saw them around and he said "Oh yeah".
I live in hope of gettng an opportunity like you had, but so far no dice. I do think that I see fewer foxes than I used to, and practically no rabbits except around my neighborhood.
