Sun, birds, and a hint of fox

No rain today (well not much) which was a welcome surprise after the recent depressingly wet and overcast days we've suffered. The garden was quiet during the day, although I did spot a lone blackbird sitting quietly in the beech trees. Wonderfully close he was, but nestling behind a tangle of branches. I eventually managed one decent photo of him, though it took a fair deal of contorting to aim the camera. (I did get plenty of shots of a black smudge behind super-sharp branches though 😉 )

By early afternoon, the sun was beginning to drop in the west giving the sky a beautiful yellow cast. I took this next shot with a super-fast shutter speed (1/2500) and high f-setting to produce something slightly richer in tone. By the way, the eye-piece on my camera is a digital screen so I wasn't staring directly at the sun when I took this.

And this evening, after a few days absence, the young fox showed his face. And an odd face it is too, judging from this!

Judging from his behaviour he's making a territorial bid of sorts. Throughout the visit he held his tail out behind him, and was prone to nuzzle the ground (scent marking).

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  1. gdare

    3 Dec 2006

    About month ago I came back from Japan. Did you know that in some shinto shrines they put statues of foxes as symbolic guardians of shrine (somewhere there are dogs or lions, like in Tsurumi Jinja). It is called komainu. And I think someone told me foxes are considered as a messengers… If you want you can take a look at some photograps I put here: http://my.opera.com/gdare/albums/ I tried to establish some order but Opera`s server has its own idea about it 🙂
    Take care.
    Darko

  2. Words

    3 Dec 2006

    I didn't know about the Japanese shrine guardians. It's similar to some wolf mythology, where the wolf acts a guide. Oh and really liked this photo 😉

  3. SittingFox

    3 Dec 2006

    Wolf guides – the Japanese watching-wolf myth 🙂 I've read some of that, makes more pleasant reading than the average European myth about wolves…

    What an extraordinary expression on that young fox's face :eyes:

  4. Flying Red Fox Blog

    4 Dec 2006

    Aw sweet, the expression on the Fox's face could be due to the sudden gust of headwind he got while on the wall, either that or he thought, i know, i will do a funny face at Words for the camera:P

    I hope the Dog Fox comes back, then we might get more cubs in the Spring:D

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