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Samples of wildlife photography

That Rarest Thing, a Fox

Or to be exact… two foxes. Just quick shots taken in the garden last night, but the first I’ve managed of foxes in quite a long while. Two different foxes (a bonus!), both cautious about coming too far forward; and I was equally circumspect, keeping still at the other end of the garden and risking just one photo of each. The distance creates the eye-shine, which is a little extreme in the second photo. Both looked in fine fettle, with healthy winter coats developing.

Fox number one peering out from behind a garden bush.

Fox number one peering out from behind a garden bush.

Fox in garden

Fox number two, with a nicked ear, stayed further back, but stayed there for a couple of minutes. Progress!

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

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Six Badger Portraits

This may prove to be the year without a fox, but the badgers have more than made up for it. To be fair, the foxes are around, just very shy. Unlike this garden regular. These shots were on Sunday night.

Badger in exploring the garden

Badger exploring the garden

badger

A contented badger with peanuts

A portrait of a happy badger

A portrait of a happy badger

Down on the path the badger gets down to serious scrunching

Down on the path the badger gets down to serious scrunching

Happy badger!

Happy badger!

An arty pose deserves an arty treatment

An arty pose to close, and an arty treatment to go with it

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

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El Zorro

El_Zorro___DISPO_55e5e45f398d2A real treat arrived in the post for me today. The Spanish edition of Joan Burrell and Isabel Mate‘s (both of the University of Barcelona) academic monograph on the fox, El Zorro. Sadly, it’s in Spanish so I can’t read it, but the book spans some 400 pages on the evolution, ecology, biology, behaviours and cultural significance of the red fox. A previous version appeared in Catalan under the title La Guineu a Catalunya’ (I couldn’t read that one either).

The new edition is even more extensively illustrated than the first, and includes 21 of my photos among the nearly 200 photos and illustrations. The full contents of the book for those who can read Spanish is on ResearchGate.

This is a book that absolutely needs a UK publisher to translate.

El Zorro is published by Tundra in the Monografias Zooligicas – Serie Iberica (volumen 3)

 

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