I went out to photograph the frog spawn tonight, but ended up concentrating on the newts which were showing more than a little interest in the arrival of large quantities of food!
There are more of the newts over on my other site.
Meanwhile, here's some more trail cam footage from last night. I re-positioned the camera to point down a little more. I suspect I missed a fair bit as several sequences were 'empty' (ie no fox). The last visit was after 4.00 in the morning. A black cat also showed up at around that time (but not included here).
The fox videos are also on my other site. And to cap it all I just looked out of the window to see a cat racing out of the garden and a fox standing tall on the pond surround (nowhere near the trail cam, and he was off before I could grab the still camera).
Camera note: all the newts were taken with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro and EM-140 DG ring flash, manually focused.
Flying Red Fox Blog
18 Mar 2009Nice photos, it looks like the fox was carrying something on the first sighting. 😀
If its at 4am you stayed up late lol, a lot of Foxes are up early morning too.
Words
18 Mar 2009Mark, there is a small amount of food to bring the fox in front of the camera. And no I didn't stay up that late (or get up that early). I need my sleep :zzz:
cakkleberrylane
18 Mar 2009Very nice pictures of the newt. I'll have to wait to get onto a Windows computer to tsee the video though.
Ukwildlife
19 Mar 2009Nice newt photos. I managed to find a 'few' toads today but more on that later 🙂
Vulpes vulpes
19 Mar 2009Those newts look underfed…not! :chef:
Cynthia23
19 Mar 2009These photos are really so amazing to me! Well done, Words!!
annoushkiss
20 Mar 2009Very nice newt pictures :up: It was interesting watching them 🙂
Words
20 Mar 2009Neil thanks. No toads round here (yet) but I always live in hope.
Words
20 Mar 2009Lois thanks! Sorry about the video not being Mac compatible 🙁
Words
20 Mar 2009Thanks Anna!
Words
20 Mar 2009Vulpes, I think those are females who will be egg-laying imminently.
Words
20 Mar 2009Thanks Cynthia!
SittingFox
22 Mar 2009Great shots of the newts!
I cannot seem to download the plugin for Windows Media Player no matter how many times I try :insane: I had to download this in Firefox in order to watch it. Anyway, nice clip :up:
Words
22 Mar 2009Adele, thanks. The newts are fun! I'll try to sort out soemthing else for the videos. They don't seem to play well on here. They do seem to work fine over on my other site (on the video page). Maybe I'll check out Vimeo.
anonymous
30 Mar 2009Anonymous writes:
this is such a cool website it gives lots of info
Words
30 Mar 2009Thanks! Anon.