{"id":1085,"date":"2008-03-06T00:03:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T00:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1085"},"modified":"2013-11-22T22:42:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T22:42:50","slug":"a-quick-fox-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-quick-fox-update\/","title":{"rendered":"A quick fox update"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#39;s just over a week since I last posted about the foxes. Generally it&#39;s been quiet, with the old dog fox being the mainstay although I&#39;ve had the odd glimpse of one of the vixens. And one more leisured appearance on the 26th. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/fox_shy_2602087036.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>When the old dog fox reappeared in the garden <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2007\/11\/27\/strange-fox-update\" target=\"_blank\">late last autumn<\/a> he seemed to have a small injury or infection around his left eye. It was slightly weepy, but over the last three months it had cleared up and I hadn&#39;t really given it any more thought. That is until tonight. I was out by the pond photographing the frog spawn when he showed up. He was in fine fettle apart from a half-closed left eye. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/fox_dog_0503087798.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>On closer inspection (praise be for zoom lenses and digital cropping, because otherwise the odds of seeing much at night are slim) the eye doesn&#39;t appear to be injured, although there is some discharge in the corner. One to keep an eye on (pardon the pun).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/fox_dog_0503087815.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the frogs have gone quiet. After the frenzy of breeding they remained active for a few days but now have all but disappeared again. I see the odd head surfacing in the pond, but none of the frantic behaviour of last week.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/frogs_spawn_0103087430.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: the vixen was photographed with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens; tonight&#39;s fox, and the frogs, with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM.<\/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":[4,86],"tags":[1128,41],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-frog","tag-fox","tag-frogs","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","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=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}