Patience is a Virtue… or, at last a fox

I'd more or less worked out what tonight's blog would be about, but the best laid plans…. I popped outside about half an hour ago. It's windy, but not too cold and I've lost track of the countless amount of time I've stood out there lately without a hint of a fox. And sure enough tonight started with one of the local cats setting off the trail camera. But then, surprise! A fox showed up. Not one of the shy ones, but Shutterbug looking very fine in his winter coat.

He didn't stay long, but long enough for a few quick photos, which I'm still sorting through. Here are a few to be going along with.

As for what I was going to post, here's a teaser. If tomorrow's quiet I'll post some more.

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Camera note: fox photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens. The cormorant was taken with the EF 400mm f/5.6L USM
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This Post Has 12 Comments

  1. cakkleberrylane

    11 Oct 2011

    Beautiful shots! Well worth the wait!

  2. gdare

    11 Oct 2011

    Patience… and a snack :yes:

  3. SittingFox

    11 Oct 2011

    Glad he's shown up again. Foxes really do make a nonsense of our understanding of animal territories. He's looking good :up:

  4. Words

    12 Oct 2011

    Erwin, thanks!

  5. Words

    12 Oct 2011

    Darko, of course! But he deserves it.

  6. Words

    12 Oct 2011

    Lois, thanks! I was beginning to wonder if they would show up at all. It has been quite a while.

  7. Words

    12 Oct 2011

    Adele, the current foxes are the shyest I can recall, which is also baffling to some extent. His coat has really filled out again, a complete transformation from the very raggedy shape he was in during the summer.

  8. ICU109

    20 Oct 2011

    wow, where on earth do you get a fox a day??? I've seen maybe one in my whole LIFE??!!! Got a pet??? lol! SO what is that in the water, duck?goose?cormorant? doesn't really look like ANY of them and all of them. I'm a city girl…..I know a dog if I see one.

  9. Words

    20 Oct 2011

    Kathy, we have lots of foxes round here. I don't always see them, but I take a lot of pictures when I do. Some years it really is every day, but it's been relatively quiet in 2011. And the bird is a cormorant.

  10. Words

    23 Oct 2011

    😀

  11. ICU109

    23 Oct 2011

    aha, I actually kinda got something RIGHT for a change!!!! Cormorant! YAY !!! Anyway, if I want a fox a day, I'll just dial up your page and have a go at it!!!

  12. Wulpen

    19 Oct 2012

    Beautiful shots

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