Despite having only had three direct fox sightings this month, the trail cam has been keeping me reasonably well informed of what 's been going on. We've had a fox with a heavy hind leg limp, another with a foreleg limp (both recovered in a day or so). Two of the foxes are (I think) the youngsters who have been around most of the year. The relatively recent dog fox has also shown up, but there's been no sign of Bold. One unknown fox has appeared briefly on a couple of occasions, distinctive because of a badly worn brush, possibly the effect of mange although I really can't be sure form such relatively indistinct footage. Anyway the said fox is in this first video (at night with another fox, and then in daylight).
There have been other nigh time visitors as well. Several local cats, and a badger. I'm going to show the badger, not least because early on in this clip a bat makes a fleeting appearance (at least I'm fairly sure it's a bat).
It's been a quiet day for photographs so I'm going to post a brief sequence of ducks (mallards) taken yesterday in London.
All I have from today are a couple of shots of newts in the pond, which is icing over again. The ice was already moderately thick for the second of these shots, hence the distortion.
Several more days of cold weather are forecast. Cold is fine, but can we please have some decent light to go with it!
Camera note: duck shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. For the newt I used the EF 100mm f/2.8L macro IS USM lens. The video was taken with the Bushnell Trophy cam.
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I hope it's a bat :alien:
And I hope you can do something for that fox, you have a good record with treating mange.
What a wonderful variety of shots. The bat is simply amazing!
In January, I think that bat is starving :left:
That's a bat, to be sure, but it's a pretty tough bat to be out and about at this time of year. I wonder if something disturbed it.
The brush…well, as you say, very hard to tell. Hopefully you'll get a clearer view at some point.
Erwin, thanks!
Darko, apparently some species do nip outside when there's a mild spell so that may be the reason. Hopefully it hasn't been disturbed from its roost.
Adele, disturbance is possible but apparently some winter movement is quite well documented. Still no direct sightings of foxes. I suspect that one just wandered by, but you never know… it could turn up again.
Mick, it would be spooky if it wasn't 😉
I've not seen that fox again, so any intervention would be difficult. They really need to be pretty regular visitors to help them.
Lois, thanks!
Great Clips :up: