I’ve been meaning to do a proper update on Pretty, our resident young fox, for a while now and the lack of any decent daytime photography today (more rain) provides the perfect opportunity. Pretty has been carrying a leg wound for a week or more, and for several days was carrying her right hind leg rather than putting any weight on it. Yesterday she started walking more or less normally again, and that positive outcome continued this evening. You can see the wound in this first photo.

Fox with wound on leg

This next photo shows her in one of her favoured spots: sitting on the leading up into the garden.

Fox on steps

What passes for a lawn in our garden (it more often resembles an unkempt mini-meadow, especially at this time of year) is situated at the top of the steps, which affords some good angles for photographing her from below.

Foxes

Foxes

Another sitting pose.

fox sitting

And away she goes to wherever it is she disappears to… sometimes just as far as the rear of the garden; other times away through the fences.

Foxes

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens.

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