Well look who showed up today…

After several days when I've barely picked up the camera (festivities, plus dull, grey weather), there was a break in the clouds this afternoon or, to be more accurate about it, the sun finally dipped beneath the heavy cloud cover. It wasn't going to last long so I popped into the garden in the hope of finding something to photograph. And I did!

I was set up for photographing birds (long lens etc), so was somewhat caught out by the silent arrival of Shutterbug. But foxes are like that. They move silently (most of the time) and are notoriously unpredictable. His appearance at the bottom of the garden was no less welcome for that. The sun and deep shade didn't help me at all (though the colours are great), but I grabbed what I could as he made his way sedately from one end of the garden to the other; starting by hopping over the pond.

And that was about that. Nice though to be back with the foxes for the first post after Christmas!
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.

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  1. anonymous

    29 Dec 2011

    Wojtek writes:

    "Winter? What winter? Look at me, I don't even have the thicker fur yet…" 😉
    We've had a white-less Christmas in my part of Europe too, but the sun and greenery is almost absurd. 🙂

  2. RobinL

    29 Dec 2011

    Words, nice to see SB out in the sun! Nice to see the sun! No sun around here, this week. Just rain! 🙁 Ah well, it's 10 degrees, so I shouldn't complain!

  3. derWandersmann

    29 Dec 2011

    :happy:

  4. gdare

    29 Dec 2011

    Jumping over the pond and marking his territory 😀

  5. SittingFox

    2 Jan 2012

    Looking nice in the sunshine! My local foxes have suddenly vanished – too typical at this time of year :right:

  6. Words

    3 Jan 2012

    Darko, yes he was just letting me know that he owns the place 😉

  7. Words

    3 Jan 2012

    Adele, I've not seen much of the foxes recently so this brief visit was very welcome.

  8. Words

    3 Jan 2012

    Robin, it's mainly been rain since then (it's back again today), but I'll grab what sun I can. The temperatures aren't too bad, which is something I guess.

  9. Words

    3 Jan 2012

    Wojtek, it's been very mild this year, which is something of a relief after the harsh winter we had in 2010/11.

  10. Words

    3 Jan 2012

    dW, thanks!

  11. serola

    4 Jan 2012

    Sun, what is that? :yikes: :jester:

    Pictures are

  12. Words

    4 Jan 2012

    Sami, I think the sun is that thing we seem to get every other day at the moment. None today of course 🙁

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