Category Archives: Wildlife

Samples of wildlife photography

The Vixen (video)

April 28, 2017 by Words | 3 Comments

As a postscript to yesterday’s post, here’s some recent footage from the trail camera 🙂

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Meet the Vixen

April 28, 2017 by Words | 4 Comments

She’s cautious, but a new mother’s first responsibility is to her young and the vixen ventured into the garden tonight and kept a watchful eye on the cubs. I just took a couple of shots of her from a distance.

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Lactating vixen keeping a watchful eye at the rear of the garden while her cubs venture forth

The cubs were as playful as ever (and greedy). A couple of them had a good scrap with each other (but the photos aren’t up to scratch… focusing moving targets in the dark isn’t easy), but in the main they were just very cute.

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This one is definitely on the greedy side of things

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This little one stayed out later than the rest.

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At the water trough

The final photo is actually from last night, but I like it and it rounds things off nicely by including the dog fox.

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Fox cub and adult (male) fox

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 200mm f/2.8L II USM lens.

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Fox Cubs Pure and Simple

April 24, 2017 by Words | 3 Comments

Very little text tonight, just some more photos from the past couple of days. It’s going to be hard to keep up if things stay the way they are. The cubs are a joy. Lively and quite bold, though I am still using a long lens so as not to get them too comfortable around me.

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Three of the cubs

A pretty fox cub portrait

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These two are quite bold, but still in the sharing stage (it won’t last)

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A final portrait from tonight of this little cutey.

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 200mm f/2.8L II USM lens.

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