{"id":1031,"date":"2007-12-26T23:12:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T23:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1031"},"modified":"2013-11-23T11:37:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T11:37:09","slug":"the-foxes-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/the-foxes-at-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The foxes at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It was early evening when I saw my first Christmas day fox. We were driving home, and as we turned into our road a young fox was trotting primly across the pavement into a local garden&#8230; with a large breast of roast turkey in its mouth \ud83d\ude00 I&#39;ve no idea where it got that, but I doubt it had to do too much hunting.<\/p>\n<p>Back in our garden the shy fox (I&#39;m 99% certain she&#39;s a vixen) has been making a number of fleeting appearances. Mostly she&#39;s too quick to photograph but I did tempt her out on Christmas night with some scraps of chicken left over from the weekend. She was extremely cautious, and any sudden movement would send her ducking back into the shadows. Unlike the dog fox who will come to within a couple of feet of me, the closest I dared venture was about 20 feet away.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/fox_shy_2512079525.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Slowly&#8230; slowly&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/fox_shy_2512079526.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">And a quick grab<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She was around this morning (briefly), and again this evening when we watched through a window as she scent-marked the lawn before disappearing through the fence. I did pop outside on the off-chance she&#39;d return. While I was listening to her moving around on the far side of the fence, the dog fox emerged from the top of the garden.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/fox_dog_2612079664.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/fox_dog_2612079662.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/>He stayed around for a few minutes sniffing in the borders and listening to the sounds coming from over the fence. Then he headed off in the direction of the noises :love:<\/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":[4],"tags":[1128],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","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=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}