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After yesterday's complete hash of an attempt to photograph the fox at work, I made almost as much mess of another shot today. That blur on the left is in fact the tail end of the injured fox I spotted in the garden last month. It was taken a couple of minutes after I got home, through the back window. <\/p>\n
The first sighting of the fox was earlier today, by my Better Half. She saw it in the garden, and sent me an email: It was difficult to see how the long wound above the eye was doing, but it seems to be healing. Not deep red anymore, and there seems to be fur around it, although you can still see where the wound is (like a line between the fur). The eye looked a bit closed, though otherwise the fox looked in very good shape, and was cocking its leg around the bushes by the pond. It was doing a lot of scent marking. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/i><\/p>\n From the very brief glimpse I got, the wound definitely is improved, though still visible. We're obviously delighted that it's doing ok, and it means that both younger adults are still very much in the vicinity. Indeed the shy vixen we saw a couple of nights ago was back briefly again this evening. She stayed long enough for me to grab a reasonable shot from the bottom of the garden. No news of the work-place fox, but I'll keep watching. <\/p>\n Camera note: both shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/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],"tags":[1128],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t
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<\/span> The other bit of news I got today was about the publication of a book called La Guineu a Catalunya<\/i><\/a> by Joan Barrull and Isabel Mate, from the University of Barcelona. My Spanish is probably as bad as anyone's, but it translates as 'The Catalonian Fox<\/a>'. It's a detailed academic study of fox behaviour, and one of the reasons I mention it is that it's extensively illustrated, including numerous photos by yours truly with several in colour and one on the cover \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n