Dancing Foxes – video

It's not often that the trail cam really does capture something spectacular. After all, it's in a fixed position and I have no control over start and finish, to say nothing of angle or position. But last night was different. A 30 second clip captured everything in the sequence. I've seen young foxes behave like this, but never adults. The video shows a pair of vixens engaging in a 'fox trot', where they rear up on their hind legs and grapple. The prize in this instance was a smattering of dog biscuits. I've added a short sound track to it from the auto-select feature on YouTube.

It's taken several years of nightly filming to get that. 😀

As for today, it was another warm one and the house martins were again busy collecting mud for their nests.

The swifts were chasing insect overhead.

And this little warbler (?) clearly has some greedy mouths to feed.

To close another shot from last night. I took this shortly after midnight (Sunday/Monday). The moon was setting in the west. Apart from a lunar eclipse I can't recall ever seeing the moon this red.

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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Video via the Bushnell Trophy Cam.

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This Post Has 14 Comments

  1. derWandersmann

    29 May 2012

    WOW!

  2. claudeb

    29 May 2012

    So that's why it's called "foxtrot"! Live and learn.

  3. Words

    29 May 2012

    Felix, the dance name is supposedly a bit of a mystery, but the link between the behaviour and the dance seems pretty clear.

  4. Words

    29 May 2012

    dW, thanks 😀

  5. Dudley

    29 May 2012

    awesome :up:

  6. SittingFox

    29 May 2012

    LOL! Food really doesn't bring out the love in foxes (except for their own stomachs, it seems). Spectacular clip!

  7. Words

    29 May 2012

    Adele, after watching so many hours of almost nothing happening on the nightly clips this one was a huge bonus. 😀

  8. Words

    29 May 2012

    Thanks Andy!

  9. gdare

    30 May 2012

    :sing: I'm dancing on the moonlight… :sing:

  10. derWandersmann

    30 May 2012

    Originally posted by Words:

    after watching so many hours of almost nothing happening on the nightly clips this one was a huge bonus.

    Anaogous (on a smaller scale) of the million monkeys on a million typewriters?
    LOL
    Of course, having the cam aimed at the right spot might count for a bit, too.

  12. Words

    1 Jun 2012

    dW, well yes it's not entirely accidental. The cam is set for optimum action, but even so I cannot but admire the foxes' excellent sense of timing. 😀

  13. Words

    1 Jun 2012

    Darko, thanks :sing:

  14. Words

    1 Jun 2012

    Mick :up:

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