Category Archives: Foxes

A collection of foxes

Two Badgers and Fox (video)

March 2, 2014 by Words | 3 Comments

It was too good to last. The dry spell is over and it’s been raining solidly for several hours now. The week ahead looks mixed, which may be ok.

As for tonight’s blog, the title relates to the video which will come up in a moment. It features a badger making two trips into the garden during heavy rain (this was on Friday, I think). It’s limping heavily, which if nothing else shows that it’s not only foxes that suffer from minor leg injuries. The second badger clearly isn’t limping, and looks altogether leaner than the first one. The fox in the video is (I think) Shy Boy. I’ve not seen him for a while, but he makes up the fourth of our four garden foxes: Pretty, Nicked Ear, and the one with the mange-afflicted brush are the other three.

First though a couple of photos of Pretty. The first was taken in the early hours of Sunday morning when it was dry. The second just a few minutes ago in the rain.

Fox in garden

Fox in garden

Now the video.

Camera note: both photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100mm f/2.8L macro IS USM lens.

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Fox Photo

February 27, 2014 by Words | 2 Comments

Just one picture from today… also available at my Fox of the Day page.

Fox in garden

And I might as well re-post yesterday’s ‘fox of the day’ since it contains a glimpse (the eye-shine) of a second fox lurking at the back of the garden.

Fox sitting in garden with eye-shine from second fox in rear

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS lens.

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Mating Greylags and More Fox and Badger Video Fun

February 24, 2014 by Words | 6 Comments

More sunshine, and signs that spring might be upon us. Likely it’s a false dawn, but we can but hope. These greylags were certainly in tune with the change of season, happily mating in the cool, early morning sunshine.

Greylag geese mating

Greylag geese mating

Greylag geese mating

Lunchtime brought more signs of spring. I was taking a walk along one of the country lanes just outside Falmer. The trees are already in leaf, and the birds were singing.

country lane

Just off the path I spotted my second butterfly of the year (and managed my first photo). It’s a small tortoiseshell, and it seems an early showing.

Small tortoiseshell butterfly

As for the foxes (and badgers), they are still enjoying the garden at night, especially now the rains have more or less stopped (cue downpour in the next 24 hours). Here are the three foxes again, plus a couple of badger encounters.

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.

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