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Pretty Little Vixen and an Apple (i-Fox)

Dreadful pun in the title aside, this is a short sequence taken this afternoon when I was testing out my new 24-70mm lens. The subject is the little vixen we call’ Pretty’ (because she is). She’s quite bold, and has been one of the more consistent of the cubs over the past few months. Pretty is also quite fond of apples.

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Pretty little vixen sitting beneath the apple tree

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Pretty little vixen sticking her tongue out!

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Guarding the apple

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Chewing the apple

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A bigger bite!

She didn’t actually eat the apple, but she did enjoy lapping up the juices that flowed from the slightly rotten fruit. I’ve also seen her pulling at the apples on the tree. This is her about a week ago. The apples weren’t quite ready to drop and she eventually gave up!

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Pretty fox cub trying to steal an apple

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 24-70mm f/4L IS USM lens.

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It Begins with a Kiss (Fox photo special)

The fox cubs were enjoying the late afternoon sun today. Lot’s of lolling around and sleeping, but the Little Dog Fox is (at 4 months old) reaching that awkward adolescent stage. The cub we call Long Nose is the other cub…

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It begins with a kiss

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The Little Dog Fox gets romantic with Long Nose

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fox cubs playing

Whoops!

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A quick nibble

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And it ends with a kiss!

This is all play for the cubs… they won’t start breeding until about 9 months old. And an interesting side fact I learnt this week from the excellent BBC film ‘The British Garden: Life and Death on your Lawn‘ is that one litter of fox cubs can have up to five different fathers!

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens.

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Hedge Fox

We’ve got a lovely 5ft shrubby honeysuckle hedge along one side of the garden, painstakingly trimmed and nurtured by Mrs Words. It runs alongside the edge of the garden pond, and is stepped to follow the general terracing of the garden. The fox cubs have discovered the hedge and at different times two of them were clambering up it tonight to explore. Here’s a short sequence of the young vixen having a go.

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Fox cub looking up at the hedge

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Starting to climb

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Fox cub on top of a shrubby honeysuckle hedge

They’ve some way to go before they reach the heights of this fox in the trees from 10 years ago (I can’t believe it’s been that long), but they are still youngsters so still plenty of time

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS lens. Video taken with something else!

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