{"id":1007,"date":"2007-11-26T00:11:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T00:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1007"},"modified":"2013-11-23T12:21:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T12:21:46","slug":"strange-happenings-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/strange-happenings-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange happenings in the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I was out by the pond this evening photographing another of the local animals (a cat called Charlie).
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I'd taken a few shots of him around the pond and glancing up at the 'mouse' (I mean 'bird') feeder and was surprised when he turned and planted himself facing in the opposite direction. He's usually so friendly! I looked in the direction he was pointing and, to my surprise, over by a low wall further up the garden was a fox! Not the young bold one, but another. They stared at each other for a few moments (long enough for three shots) before the fox ambled away and up and over the fence. A strange fox ambling<\/i> is not what I've become used to.
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Later in the evening I spotted a fox (probably the same one) from the front of the house. It was nipping into a garden opposite and sported the same distinctive white-tipped brush. Later still I was back outside when a fox again walked slowly across the rear of the garden. I'm inclined to think one of the shy ones has become bolder, but sightings have been so infrequent and generally in poor light that it is quite difficult to tell. The change in behaviour could be down to increased winter activity. The changing appearance very possibly down to the thickening up of their winter coat.<\/p>\n

The fox paused just out of my line of vision, behind the compost area and about 30ft away from me. Some gentle 'clicking' noises tempted it out briefly (again unusual) and I was able to get one further shot. If you look closely you can see it's male.
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On looking again at these photos it also seems older (though the rapid thickening of the coat at this time of year might be deceiving me). I can't be entirely sure, but there seems to be some darkening around its left eye (possibly a wound). I noticed it when I was out in the garden, but from the sort of distance I was it's difficult to make any firm diagnosis. <\/p>\n

Camera note: all shots taken with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens and Canon 188A flash unit.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,4],"tags":[1138,1128],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cat","category-foxes","tag-cat","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}