To my surprise the fox decided to spend part of the afternoon somewhere other than on his roof top sanctuary. I thought he'd taken root up there! Instead he decided to sun himself on the paved area at the side of the garden pond. It's a warm spot, and he was extremely relaxed which gave me an opportunity to take some video (which I'll edit soon). Plus a few photos 🙂
Relaxing at ground level
Compared with the old dog fox, he is a fairly skinny little thing, but that might in part be due to a heavy moult (you can see the darker under-coat on his rear flank). There were no obvious signs of the scratches and minor wounds I'd noticed a couple of weeks ago. I'd say he looks fairly content with things at the moment.
Contented fox
I also continued hunting out the insect life around the garden and came across this tiny little moth (less than 10mm span)
I'm reliably informed this is a Pyrausta aurata
These two aren't quite as pretty…
Unidentified bug-eyed mini-beast
Nursery web spider
I've added some more photos to the April Birds album, and the 2007 Quick Pix album has also had some recent additions.
anonymous
29 Apr 2007Zachary writes:
Wow, more stupendous macro photos! I don't know, I think that fly is pretty beautiful from an industrial design point of view.. the perfectly-distributed hexagonal lenses are visible! I love this second spider, too :up:
Flying Red Fox Blog
29 Apr 2007Lovelly pics, th Fox with the white flowers look so lovelly:) Another great pc screen wall paper for me yay!
SittingFox
29 Apr 2007Perhaps the fox just wanted a change of scenery? Wonderful macros! :up:
Words
29 Apr 2007Zachary. Thanks. You wouldn't believe how many shots I took to get that one of the bug eyes. The slightest breeze to the leaf out of focus.
Mark/Adele – yes I thought the flowers set him off perfectly as well. I think it was probably the heat that brought him down there. Nice though. The best shot is here. I used it on the main site.