Climbing Foxes! | Everything is Permuted

After my travels with the NavMan it's been back to the garden most evenings this week. The foxes still show up daily and I spend or an hour or so out there, camera at the ready.

Every night is special… it's amazing to be so close to the foxes and watch the changes in behaviour as the year moves on. The cubs are much larger now, more foxy and much more independent. They are much more circumspect with the vixen and tend to keep a wide berth when she's around. All part of growing up, and getting ready to run their own territory.

A couple of nights ago I got an amazing treat. Along the edge of our garden are some fairly dense shrubs and a row of beech trees. The vixen appeared and after the usual rituals of checking me out she started for the shrubs. At first I thought she was just looking, but to my amazement she began to climb. I managed to get this shot of her on the way up before switching my camera to video mode.

She scrambled into the thick of the shrub, and was near the top when the video kicked in. More pix and video over on my Fox Watch! pages.

T-G

18 Oct 2005

To be recognized for your delightful fox pictures is not a far fetched dream at all. Here you have handsome well groomed relaxed and even smiling fox pictures that professionals work their butts off to get.

Just because you allowed the foxes to gain confidence and become relaxed is no reason to think your pictures are then any less valued. How often do we see happy smiling Red Rufuses like this? Not often.

During a few recent years I enjoyed the visits and company of black bear at my illegal and unofficial cabin in the Beaufort mountains out behind Cumberland, south middle of Vancouver Island British Columbia. Bears, I have found, are for the most part quite civilized, not that I extend too much trust, but I have been face to face suddenly at times, and somehow picked up the body language where you bow your head a little and turn slowly sidways. This is what the bear does, and so I do it too. It says OK, I see you but I'm busy here and you are busy there and carry on.

I'll really get into more bear insights later, like a warning about Boss, Bully or Rogue bears. You must always vacate from these nasty bears. A bully bear swaggers like a bully and has a swollen ego, because he has won every confrontation for the last two or three years. Boss bears are thankfully rare. However, if you see a bigger than average bear smashing the bushes with his arms, making a lot of crashing bush noises, you want to turn sideways and start moving away as you defer to Mr. Nasty. Getting to you vehicle is best, otherwise you better have a 300 cal rifle and the clamness to use it if you are cornered. Never climb a tree to avoid bear. It just suggests exactly what the bear must do next. Stay on the ground. Keep the bear undecided. Grizzley climb trees too. I have no idea why there is some story that suggests they do not.

Sorry about the aside about bear. It's hard to quit without the warning about the rare but dangerous *Nasty* bear.

Anyway, I wanted to mention about the 145 page Book / Thesis that James has made available. Click on EveryHuman on my site under Tech / Gurus http://My.Opera.com/T-G/ It's worth having. TG

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KayFour
27 Jul 2005

I love your fox pictures. I went to the Fox Watch and Fox Gallery sites and looked at the newest photos.

I hope you win your photo contest!

K4
Words
27 Jul 2005

Thanks for the support. Best I can hope for is a short-listing I reckon. At that point the professionals get to choose and I doubt they'll go for two foxes in a garden when put up against the best architecture in Britain.

I can dream
T-G
18 Oct 2005

To be recognized for your delightful fox pictures is not a far fetched dream at all. Here you have handsome well groomed relaxed and even smiling fox pictures that professionals work their butts off to get.

Just because you allowed the foxes to gain confidence and become relaxed is no reason to think your pictures are then any less valued. How often do we see happy smiling Red Rufuses like this? Not often.

During a few recent years I enjoyed the visits and company of black bear at my illegal and unofficial cabin in the Beaufort mountains out behind Cumberland, south middle of Vancouver Island British Columbia. Bears, I have found, are for the most part quite civilized, not that I extend too much trust, but I have been face to face suddenly at times, and somehow picked up the body language where you bow your head a little and turn slowly sidways. This is what the bear does, and so I do it too. It says OK, I see you but I'm busy here and you are busy there and carry on.

I'll really get into more bear insights later, like a warning about Boss, Bully or Rogue bears. You must always vacate from these nasty bears. A bully bear swaggers like a bully and has a swollen ego, because he has won every confrontation for the last two or three years. Boss bears are thankfully rare. However, if you see a bigger than average bear smashing the bushes with his arms, making a lot of crashing bush noises, you want to turn sideways and start moving away as you defer to Mr. Nasty. Getting to you vehicle is best, otherwise you better have a 300 cal rifle and the clamness to use it if you are cornered. Never climb a tree to avoid bear. It just suggests exactly what the bear must do next. Stay on the ground. Keep the bear undecided. Grizzley climb trees too. I have no idea why there is some story that suggests they do not.

Sorry about the aside about bear. It's hard to quit without the warning about the rare but dangerous *Nasty* bear.

Anyway, I wanted to mention about the 145 page Book / Thesis that James has made available. Click on EveryHuman on my site under Tech / Gurus http://My.Opera.com/T-G/ It's worth having. TG

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