Maybe if we're still he'll be curious enough to come back? One of the distractions of the world of atoms is that a fox near us had 3 kits a few months ago, and we often see them early morning/late evening. Now they're getting old enough to be scared off by humans, but when they were really small they would either be curious about us or (when multiple) ignore us because they were playing among themselves, so we managed to get within a few metres a few times...